{"id":1095,"date":"2016-02-17T19:45:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/a-look-back-at-civil-rights-in-greenville\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:05:43","slug":"a-look-back-at-civil-rights-in-greenville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-look-back-at-civil-rights-in-greenville\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back at Civil Rights in Greenville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/civil-rights-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5705 lazyload\" title=\"civil-rights-photo\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/civil-rights-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"288\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 382px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 382\/288;\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Furman University will host a special screening of a half-hour program produced by WSPA-TV that takes an in-depth look at the Civil Rights efforts that took place in Greenville during the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The CLP event, \u201cA Look Back: A Screening of WSPA\u2019s UpFront,\u201d will begin at 7 p.m. in McEachern Lecture Room of Furman Hall.\u00a0 It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Furman partnered with WSPA-TV to help produce the program that examines the important role that Greenville played during the Civil Rights movement.\u00a0 In addition to conversations with local leaders who were instrumental in the movement, the program features interviews with Furman professors Sean O\u2019Rourke (communication studies) and Courtney Tollison (history).\u00a0 Furman students Jayde Barton, Courtney Thomas, Reagan Thompson and Lena Pringle also provided interviews.<\/p>\n<p>The program includes a conversation with Diane Nash, a Civil Rights champion who helped organize the Freedom Riders as a college student in the 1960s and who spoke on the Furman campus in January.<\/p>\n<p>The program will air on WSPA-TV Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Furman will host a special screening of a half-hour program produced by WSPA-TV that takes an in-depth look at the Civil Rights efforts that took place in Greenville during the 1960s. The CLP event, \u201cA Look Back: A Screening of WSPA\u2019s UpFront,\u201d will begin at 7 p.m. in McEachern Lecture Room of Furman Hall. Furman partnered with WSPA-TV to help produce the program that examines the important role Greenville played during the Civil Rights movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}