{"id":3666,"date":"2020-07-03T02:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2020-07-03T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:42:32","slug":"anderson-quoted-in-new-york-times-op-ed-let-freedom-ring-from-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2020\/07\/03\/anderson-quoted-in-new-york-times-op-ed-let-freedom-ring-from-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Quoted in &#8216;New York Times&#8217; Op-Ed &#8220;&#8216;Let Freedom Ring&#8217; From Georgia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently quoted in a\u00a0<em>New York Times <\/em>op-ed by Roger Cohen. The piece, &#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/26\/opinion\/let-freedom-ring-from-georgia.html\">Let Freedom Ring&#8217; From Georgia<\/a>,&#8221; discusses recent racial violence and manifestations of systemic racism &#8211; along with the campaigns against them &#8211; in the state of Georgia. In examining factors that seem to have contributed to an expanding and exceptional wave of popular support for those campaigns, Cohen quotes Anderson: &#8220;&#8216;Like Emmett Till in the casket, the Floyd image made clear no black person is safe,&#8217; Carol Anderson, a professor here at Emory University and author of &#8216;White Rage,&#8217; told me.&#8221; Read the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/26\/opinion\/let-freedom-ring-from-georgia.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently quoted in a\u00a0New York Times op-ed by Roger Cohen. The piece, &#8220;&#8216;Let Freedom Ring&#8217; From Georgia,&#8221; discusses recent racial violence and manifestations of systemic racism &#8211; along with the campaigns against them &#8211; in the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}