{"id":632,"date":"2018-12-15T21:26:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=632"},"modified":"2018-12-20T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:55:24","slug":"african-american-support-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/african-american-support-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Support in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This newspaper article featured in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Florida News <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shows the two different sides on the candidates for the election for the governing spot in Alabama. One candidate was George Wallace; a far-right, Southern conservative who had racist intentions, and the other candidate was Albert Brewer, a Southern Democrat who appealed to African Americans and would have offered hope in their strides for freedom. The Alabama Democratic Conference Chairman, Joe Reed, stated: \u201cWe can take the ballot and make politicians in Alabama behave again.\u201d Reed, who is an African American, was calling out George Wallace for his poor behavior in an authoritative position and was emphasizing that all African Americans need to vote for Brewer for a change. Unfortunately, Wallace won the election but it wasn\u2019t long before Brewer won the next one and made an immediate impact in many African American&#8217;s lives in the state of Alabama. Brewer eventually being elected is another example of progress being made in America just like the progress shown from the image of Eisenhower and the African American Civil Rights leaders. National exceptionalism is in effect when one country succeeds at differentiating themselves from other countries and Brewer helping African Americans become a more integral part of society is an example of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-634\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Fold3_-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Florida News\" width=\"369\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Fold3_-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Fold3_-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Fold3_-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Fold3_-676x890.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This newspaper article featured in The Florida News shows the two different sides on the candidates for the election for the governing spot in Alabama. One candidate was George Wallace;&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/african-american-support-in-office\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}