{"id":167941,"date":"2015-02-13T20:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/13\/it-was-illegal-for-black-people-to-even-move-to\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:29:28","slug":"it-was-illegal-for-black-people-to-even-move-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/13\/it-was-illegal-for-black-people-to-even-move-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was illegal for Black people to even move to Oregon until 1927.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>And in what I\u2019m sure is <i>completely<\/i> unrelated news, Black people comprise only <a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/41000.html\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> percent of the state\u2019s population (as compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/00000.html\" target=\"_blank\">13.2<\/a> percent nationally)<\/p>\n<p>More on Oregon\u2019s Exclusionary Black Laws <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/perspectives\/black-laws-oregon-1844-1857\" target=\"_blank\"><i>\u00bb here<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/odinsblog.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">odinsblog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This state is where I make my home, and I love it here, but we still have a long, long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/ruckawriter.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ruckawriter<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was illegal for Black people to even move to Oregon until 1927. And in what I\u2019m sure is completely unrelated news, Black people comprise only two percent of the state\u2019s population (as compared to 13.2 percent nationally) More on Oregon\u2019s Exclusionary Black Laws \u00bb here (via odinsblog) This state is where I make my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/13\/it-was-illegal-for-black-people-to-even-move-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,338,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}