{"id":2696,"date":"2019-03-30T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2019-03-30T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:19:32","slug":"a-young-white-girl-honors-a-forgotten-black-civil-rights-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/a-young-white-girl-honors-a-forgotten-black-civil-rights-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"A Young White Girl Honors a Forgotten Black Civil Rights Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A young white girl noticed a marker outlining the birth and death of a man. The marker did not indicate his race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She became curious about why it was there all alone. She did her research and started a movement to honor that man’s legacy. The link below provides more info:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News Article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: April 23, 2025

MLK III posted the below image on his Facebook page to honor the memory of William Moore, a white man who fought and died for Black Civil Rights. I decided to add it to this post.

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Moore intended to deliver a letter demanding the end of segregation, to Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett. Click here<\/a> to read the letter in its entirety.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A young white girl noticed a marker outlining the birth and death of a man. The marker did not indicate his race. She became curious about why it was there all alone. She did her research and started a movement to honor that man’s legacy. The link below provides more info: CBS News Article Update:Continue reading A Young White Girl Honors a Forgotten Black Civil Rights Leader<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-rights-leaders-black","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}