{"id":1655,"date":"2011-01-14T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2011-01-14T21:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:41:04","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object style=\"width: 320px; height: 285px;\" classid=\"clsid:6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" codebase=\"http:\/\/activex.microsoft.com\/activex\/controls\/mplayer\/en\/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701\"><param name=\"url\" value=\"mms:\/\/dlgmedia1.galib.uga.edu\/dlg\/wsbn\/wmv\/wsbn33344.wmv\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"top\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"mms:\/\/dlgmedia1.galib.uga.edu\/dlg\/wsbn\/wmv\/wsbn33344.wmv\" \/><embed style=\"width: 320px; height: 285px;\" type=\"application\/x-mplayer2\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" src=\"mms:\/\/dlgmedia1.galib.uga.edu\/dlg\/wsbn\/wmv\/wsbn33344.wmv\" align=\"top\" url=\"mms:\/\/dlgmedia1.galib.uga.edu\/dlg\/wsbn\/wmv\/wsbn33344.wmv\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(Video from the WSB-TV newsfilm collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Award Collection.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(<em>You may need to increase your volume, the video has a low audio level<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/crdl\/id:ugabma_wsbn_33344\">Link to video<\/a>: &#8220;In this WSB newsfilm clip possibly from June 1961, Dr. Martin Luther  King, Jr. calls upon president John F. Kennedy to issue a &#8220;Second  Emancipation Proclamation&#8221; declaring segregation illegal. King asserts  that the time has come for the president to issue an executive order  against segregation. He declares that the United States&#8217; world position  demands an end to segregation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a quick reminder that the<a href=\"http:\/\/crdl.usg.edu\/\"> Civil Rights Digital Library<\/a> has a large and diverse collection of resources about the man and his legacy. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/crdl.usg.edu\/people\/k\/king_martin_luther_jr_1929_1968\/\">King&#8217;s page at the CRDL<\/a> to find videos, photographs, sound recordings and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Video from the WSB-TV newsfilm collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Award Collection.) (You may need to increase your volume, the video has a low audio level.) Link to video: &#8220;In this WSB newsfilm clip possibly from June 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. calls upon president John F. Kennedy to issue a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=1655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Martin Luther King, Jr. Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,95],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dlg-collections","tag-civil-rights-sunbelt-georgia-1945-1980s","tag-civil-rights-digital-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}