
{"id":21665,"date":"2011-10-27T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21665"},"modified":"2011-10-27T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:11:53","slug":"postscript-to-a-protest-university-day-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/10\/27\/postscript-to-a-protest-university-day-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Postscript to a protest, University Day redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/10\/27\/postscript-to-a-protest-university-day-redux\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1KWords102711.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1KWords102711\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1KWords102711.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1KWords102711-113x78.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1KWords102711-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1KWords102711-100x69.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs a postscript to the Speaker Ban marker dedication on the UNC campus: There were so many magical moments from that University Day celebration, but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one \u00e2\u20ac\u0153decisive moment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that will resonate with this photographer for a long time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the delight on the faces of Speaker Ban Law protesters spotting themselves and pals in the panoramic crowd shot of the historic demonstration on McCorkle Place, March 2, 1966, 45 years after that event. My comrades-in-arms are, left to right: my wife, Lynne Vernon-Feagans; School of Education Dean Bill McDiarmid; Eric Van Loon; and James Medford. When I asked Medford, now a lawyer in Greensboro, for his take on the day, he wrote: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the dedication of this marker reminded me again of the fact, often quoted in various forms, that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. The crowd of students who showed up for the speech by Frank Wilkinson, which Eric and I were looking at in your photo, were citizens attempting to exercise their rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution, which the Speaker Ban law had denied them.\u00c2\u00a0The amendment bears repeating: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d When I asked the same question of Van Loon, now a Boston mediator who is the elected town moderator in Concord, Mass., he reflected: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On University Day, I was reminded of the political courage of the UNC student leaders, ambitious to run for future office, who risked being called pro-Communist but who (like those heralded in JFK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Profiles in Courage) risked their political futures to stand up for free speech and Constitutional rights.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a postscript to the Speaker Ban marker dedication on the UNC campus: There were so many magical moments from that University Day celebration, but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one \u00e2\u20ac\u0153decisive moment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that will resonate with this photographer for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665","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=21665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21676,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665\/revisions\/21676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}