{"id":477219,"date":"2022-01-20T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=231649"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:47:55","slug":"black-americans-mostly-left-behind-by-progress-since-dr-kings-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/20\/black-americans-mostly-left-behind-by-progress-since-dr-kings-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Americans Mostly Left Behind by Progress Since Dr. King\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century ago, the wholesale racial integration required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act was just beginning to chip away at discrimination in education, jobs and public facilities. Black voters had only  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/20\/black-americans-mostly-left-behind-by-progress-since-dr-kings-death\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/20\/black-americans-mostly-left-behind-by-progress-since-dr-kings-death\/\">Black Americans Mostly Left Behind by Progress Since Dr. King\u2019s Death<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/20\/black-americans-mostly-left-behind-by-progress-since-dr-kings-death\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century ago, the wholesale racial integration required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act was just beginni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478077,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477219\/revisions\/478077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}