{"id":514,"date":"2012-06-18T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T16:45:48","slug":"1948-civil-rights-and-the-democratic-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"1948: Civil Rights and the Democratic National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was born in 1948.<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even before the day I was born my life had been affected by what was and wasn&#8217;t going on in America regarding civil rights.\u00a0 I was well into my thirties before I, a Chinese Black girl who<em> once-upon-a-time passed for white<\/em>, was acutely aware of America&#8217;s dirty laundry. Mother protected me well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1948 at the Democratic National Convention members of certain southern states walked out (which later led to the formation of the States&#8217; Rights Party) when &#8220;liberal democrats won by a close vote&#8221; (according to Allie Shay, July 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/lcrm.lib.unc.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/12\/remembering-the-1948-democratic-national-convention\/\">Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Proudly, from my home state (smithonianmag.com):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/1948-democratic-convention.html#ixzz1yA4tzXzG\">Hubert Humphrey, mayor of Minneapolis and a candidate for Senate, delivered the liberal argument in an intensely emotional speech: &#8220;The time is now arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states&#8217; rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.<\/a><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am learning much that is difficult, and emotional-yet necessary-as I continue my research while writing <em><strong>Love Imagined,<\/strong><\/em><em><strong><\/strong><\/em> hoping to make sense of an identity that Mother felt necessary to hide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sherry-Quan-Lee-Photos-026.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-517\" title=\"Sherry Toddler Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sherry-Quan-Lee-Photos-026.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click on READING RECOMMENDATIONS under PAGES for a list of some of the books that have helped me along the way.\u00a0 Please feel free to recommend books that have been meaningful to you in your search for identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sherry Quan Lee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">June 18, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in 1948. Even before the day I was born my life had been affected by what was and wasn&#8217;t going on in America regarding civil rights.\u00a0 I was well into my thirties before I, a Chinese Black girl who once-upon-a-time passed for white, was acutely aware of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=514\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31,28,34,29],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-imagined","tag-civil-rights-movement","tag-memoir","tag-mixed-race","tag-process-of-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}