{"id":353436,"date":"2010-02-23T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f81\/kopel-story-armed-community-organizers-39853\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:20:16","slug":"kopel-the-story-of-the-armed-community-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353436","title":{"rendered":"Kopel: The story of the armed community organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Posted: 02.23.10 01:30 AM<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I linked to a picture of civil rights activist John Salter being attacked by a mob during a lunch counter sit in during the 1960s. I also linked to a newspaper op-ed in which Salter explained how he and other civil rights workers used firearms for protection from Klansmen and other terrorists &#8212; when Klansmen knew that a homicide would not be witnessed by the news media. Since that blog post drew great interest from the readers, I thought that some persons might be interested in the longer version of Salter&#8217;s history of the role of armed self defense in the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13442\" >http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13442<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: 02.23.10 01:30 AM A few weeks ago, I linked to a picture of civil rights activist John Salter being attacked by a mob during a lunch counter sit in during the 1960s. I also linked to a newspaper op-ed in which Salter explained how he and other civil rights workers used firearms for protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}