{"id":3093,"date":"2010-11-09T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2010-11-09T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T20:15:42","slug":"tales-of-beatnik-glory-charlotte-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/tales-of-beatnik-glory-charlotte-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Beatnik Glory &#8211; Charlotte edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends with whom I helped run <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Inquisition_%28underground_newspaper%29\">an underground paper in Charlotte NC in 1968 and 69<\/a> will be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteblogs.wordpress.com\/\">Charlotte Talks show<\/a> on WFAE tomorrow, Wednesday November 10 at 9 am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteblogs.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/08\/wednesday-november-10-2010-the-inquisition\/\">Charlotte Talks says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wfae.org\/wfae\/images\/Inquisition.jpg\" alt=\"The Inquisition\" \/><br \/>\nIn 1968 a few young men at East Mecklenburg High School began publishing a magazine out of a shed in one of their backyards. They called it The Inquisition and those boys made what some folks say is history. The liberal content of the paper \u2013 promoting civil rights, opposing the Vietnam War and more \u2013 caught the attention, and the ire of much of Charlotte\u2019s authority figures. What happened next became fodder for legend. It was the first case in America where the free press and the first amendment came in conflict with simple zoning laws. Our guests today argue that the court case involving The Inquisition and its editors help blaze a trail for the entire southern underground press movement. We talk with two of the original editors of The Inquisition and a writer researching their story.<\/p>\n<p>Guests<br \/>\nSuzanne Sink \u2013 English Instructor, Author of an essay on The Inquisition story<br \/>\nLynwood Sawyer \u2013 Former Editor\/Writer, The Inquisition<br \/>\nRussell Schwarz \u2013 Former Editor\/Writer, The Inquisition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends with whom I helped run an underground paper in Charlotte NC in 1968 and 69 will be on the Charlotte Talks show on WFAE tomorrow, Wednesday November 10 at 9 am. Charlotte Talks says: In 1968 a few young men at East Mecklenburg High School began publishing a magazine out of a shed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}