{"id":287,"date":"2017-10-10T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2017-10-10T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:39:00","slug":"1897-the-need-of-friendly-visitation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/sources\/documents\/black-men-reformers\/1897-the-need-of-friendly-visitation\/","title":{"rendered":"1897- The Need of Friendly Visitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZKi8xMr_KGcC&amp;lpg=RA1-PA30&amp;ots=UCQlg0L1ZG&amp;dq=Sociological%20Club%20Atlanta%20Proctor&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Proctor <\/a>argues that the uplift of impoverished African Americans requires personal interaction between the elites and the working class. His remarks express a disdain for his socioeconomic inferiors, addressing concerns that wealthier blacks might become contaminated through this contact: &#8220;Virtue is its possessor&#8217;s shield. The immaculate swan comes unspotted from the vilest sewer.&#8221; (45)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proctor argues that the uplift of impoverished African Americans requires personal interaction between the elites and the working class. His remarks express a disdain for his socioeconomic inferiors, addressing concerns that wealthier blacks might become contaminated through this contact: &#8220;Virtue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/sources\/documents\/black-men-reformers\/1897-the-need-of-friendly-visitation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"featured_media":0,"parent":215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}