{"id":699,"date":"2012-02-08T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=699"},"modified":"2012-02-08T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:49:26","slug":"opinion-poll-in-pittsburgh-courier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2012\/02\/08\/opinion-poll-in-pittsburgh-courier\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion Poll in Pittsburgh Courier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2012\/02\/Pittsburgh-Courier-101942-opinion-poll.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">October 10, 1942, <em>Pittsburgh Courier<\/em> opinion poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you believe that India should contend for her rights and her liberty now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Out of 10,000 responses from black Americans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>87.8% said &#8220;yes&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>10.7% said &#8220;no&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>1.5% had no opinion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(No significant difference between those polled in the North and those in the South)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Courier Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for India&#8217;s Fight,&#8221; <em>Pittsburgh Courier<\/em>, October 10, 1942, pg. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10, 1942, Pittsburgh Courier opinion poll &#8220;Do you believe that India should contend for her rights and her liberty now?&#8221; Out of 10,000 responses from black Americans: 87.8% said &#8220;yes&#8221; 10.7% said &#8220;no&#8221; 1.5% had no opinion (No significant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2012\/02\/08\/opinion-poll-in-pittsburgh-courier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41115,39567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-primary-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}