{"id":2181,"date":"2014-04-10T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/10\/shaking-a-nation-to-its-roots\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:32:16","slug":"shaking-a-nation-to-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/shaking-a-nation-to-its-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking a nation to its roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/civil-rights-march.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10933 lazyload\" alt=\"civil-rights-march\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/civil-rights-march.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/219;\" \/><\/a>Fifty years ago this week, on April 12, 1964, Malcolm X delivered, in Detroit, one of the most important speeches in the history of the Civil Rights Movement, \u201cThe Ballot or the Bullet.\u201d His speech shook the civil rights movement, as well as the nation, to its roots. And, 50 years later, Malcolm\u2019s words sound astoundingly prophetic. In an April 10 op-ed he co-authored for <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140410\/OPINION01\/304100037\/Editorial-Ballot-bullet-50-years-later\">The Detroit News<\/a><\/i><\/b>, Furman Communication Studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke wrote about the famous speech that cut through the rhetoric of peace and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago this week, on April 12, 1964, Malcolm X delivered, in Detroit, one of the most important speeches in the history of the Civil Rights Movement, \u201cThe Ballot or the Bullet.\u201d His speech shook the civil rights movement, as well as the nation, to its roots. And, 50 years later, Malcolm\u2019s words sound astoundingly prophetic. In an April 10 op-ed he co-authored for <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140410\/OPINION01\/304100037\/Editorial-Ballot-bullet-50-years-later\">The Detroit News<\/a><\/i><\/b>, Furman Communication Studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke wrote about the famous speech that cut through the rhetoric of peace and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}