{"id":1111,"date":"2016-02-11T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/remembering-an-act-of-courage\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:36:28","slug":"remembering-an-act-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/remembering-an-act-of-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering an act of courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5815\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sean-orourke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5815 lazyload\" title=\"sean-orourke\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sean-orourke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/250;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sean O&#8217;Rourke<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On March 2, 1961, a large group of high school and college students gathered at Zion Baptist Church in Columbia. Their purpose was to peacefully confront the state government and the people of South Carolina about their grievances, and ask that \u201cthe laws which prohibited Negro privileges in this state to be removed.\u201d The protesters were arrested, but the U.S. Supreme Court would ultimately reverse the convictions and strengthen free speech rights in America. Furman communications professor Sean O\u2019Rourke co-authored an op-ed in <em>The Greenville News<\/em> that commemorated the 50th anniversary of that important ruling.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130302\/OPINION\/303020001\/Students-fought-nation-s-promise?gcheck=1&amp;nclick_check=1\">Read the op-ed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 2, 1961, a large group of high school and college students gathered at Zion Baptist Church in Columbia. Their purpose was to peacefully confront the state government and the people of South Carolina about their grievances, and ask that \u201cthe laws which prohibited Negro privileges in this state to be removed.\u201d The protesters were arrested, but the U.S. Supreme Court would ultimately reverse the convictions and strengthen free speech rights in America. Furman communications professor Sean O\u2019Rourke co-authored an op-ed in <em>The Greenville News<\/em> that commemorated the 50th anniversary of that important ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","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=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}