{"id":1912,"date":"2014-12-16T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:34","slug":"minneapolis-rhetoric-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2014\/12\/16\/minneapolis-rhetoric-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis and the rhetoric of civil rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Published December 16, 2014 by <a href=\"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/the-historyapolis-lab\/#kirsten\">Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"lead-para\">\n<p>As our last two posts have illuminated, Minneapolis was seen as a bastion for civil rights in the 1940s and 1950s. Yet today the city is known for its racial disparities.<a href=\"http:\/\/247wallst.com\/special-report\/2014\/12\/09\/the-worst-states-for-black-americans\/5\/\"> A new study just ranked Minnesota the second worst place in the nation for African Americans<\/a>. How did we get from there to here over the last 50 years? Or was the civil rights rhetoric of the mid-twentieth century all talk with no structural change?<\/p>\n<p>Image is from the Minnesota Historical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published December 16, 2014 by Kirsten Delegard As our last two posts have illuminated, Minneapolis was seen as a bastion for civil rights in the 1940s and 1950s. Yet today the city is known for its racial disparities. A new study just ranked Minnesota the second worst place in the nation for African Americans. How&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}