
{"id":21226,"date":"2011-10-06T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21226"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:16:29","slug":"speaker-ban-plaintiffs-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/10\/06\/speaker-ban-plaintiffs-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Ban plaintiffs remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On University Day, Wednesday, Oct. 12, UNC students who worked to bring an end to the Speaker Ban Law will be honored with the dedication of a granite marker along the stone wall between McCorkle Place and Franklin Street. <\/p>\n<p>Twelve names will appear on the marker, each of whom was a plaintiff in a successful suit challenging a state law that prohibited from speaking on UNC campuses anyone who was a member of the Communist Party, advocated for the overthrow of the government or had invoked the Fifth Amendment in response to questions about subversive activities. <\/p>\n<p>In March 1966, in defiance of the law, the campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society invited Herbert Aptheker, a Marxist historian, and Frank Wilkinson, a civil-rights activist, to speak from the Franklin Street sidewalk, just beyond the low wall, while the audience listened from the campus lawn. The talks served as a foundation for the lawsuit; two years later, the law was overturned.<\/p>\n<p>A ceremony unveiling the marker will be held at 3 p.m. A reception in the Johnston Center lounge will follow. All are invited.<\/p>\n<p>The University Library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Special Collections has created an online exhibit on the history of the speaker ban at museum.unc.edu. The site also includes a list of publications, archives and manuscripts relating to the ban available for research at Wilson Library. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Staff Reports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC students who worked to bring an end to the Speaker Ban Law will be honored with the dedication of a granite marker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21227,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226\/revisions\/21227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}