{"id":347,"date":"2010-02-10T21:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T05:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2010-02-10T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T05:46:17","slug":"black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty Years of Black History
\n<\/strong>The ’60s<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> — February 1, 1960, four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College<\/strong><\/a> in Greensboro, North Carolina, begin a sit-in at Woolworth’s Drug Store. Why?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> — October 1, James Meredith<\/strong><\/a> becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, escorted by U.S. marshals by order of President John F. Kennedy<\/a>. Who attempted to block his entrance<\/a>?<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> — Sidney Poitier<\/a> wins Best Actor for “Lilies of the Field.” Check out his other films<\/a>. August 28<\/strong>, The March on Washington<\/strong><\/a> becomes the largest civil rights demonstration in American history, a moment defined by Dr. King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. (Listen<\/strong><\/a>; read it<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n

1965<\/strong> — February 21, Malcolm X<\/strong><\/a> is assassinated in Harlem by members of the Nation of Islam. Who was his wife<\/a>?<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> — April 4, Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong><\/a> is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Where did he die<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifty Years of Black History The ’60s 1960 — February 1, 1960, four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina, begin a sit-in at Woolworth’s Drug Store. Why? 1962 — October 1, James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, escorted by U.S. marshals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}