{"id":10554,"date":"2018-02-28T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2019-10-01T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:53:43","slug":"memphis-explore-50-years-ago-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/memphis-explore-50-years-ago-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis: Explore 50 Years Ago and Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the issuance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/27\/589351779\/report-updates-landmark-1968-racism-study-finds-more-poverty-more-segregation\">Kerner Commission report<\/a> the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.\u00a0 For more on that era and the events that led up to it, \u00a0the Law Library and the main campus library have cooperated to purchase two modules&#8212;<strong>Black Freedom Struggle in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century<\/strong> and <strong>NAACP papers 1909-1972<\/strong>&#8212;of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hv.proquest.com\/historyvault\/hv.jsp?pageid=advanced_ui&amp;module=28990&amp;module=74807&amp;module=23138&amp;module=24911&amp;module=22789&amp;module=47846&amp;module=92064&amp;module=14309&amp;module=91549&amp;module=85489\">History Vault database<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 These are searchable and browsable via the <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.law.memphis.edu\/az.php\">databases page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For an update on how Memphis fares on a couple of very timely national issues, check out the following reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/static.lakana.com\/nxsglobal\/localmemphis\/document_dev\/2018\/02\/27\/MLK50%20Poverty%20Report_1519792455371_35430259_ver1.0.pdf\">The Poverty Report: Memphis since MLK<\/a> (issued yesterday)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/research.newamericaneconomy.org\/report\/new-americans-in-memphis\/\">New Americans in Memphis<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/research.newamericaneconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/G4G_Memphis_V4_DIGITAL-1.pdf\">full report here<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0 (issued last week)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the issuance of the Kerner Commission report the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.\u00a0 For&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10556,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions\/10556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}