{"id":32992,"date":"2017-06-19T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=32992"},"modified":"2017-06-19T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:00:45","slug":"this-day-in-history-civil-rights-progress-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=32992","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Civil Rights Progress in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>June 19<\/h3>\n<p>1862<br \/>\nCongress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories.<\/p>\n<p>1865<br \/>\nGen. Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Tex., that the slaves were freed. The celebration of the day became known as Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p>1867<br \/>\nThe first running of the Belmont Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>1934<br \/>\nThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.<\/p>\n<p>1964<br \/>\nThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved.<\/p>\n<p>1977<br \/>\nPope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann, the first male saint from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.<\/p>\n<p>2002<br \/>\nAfghanistan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>Lou Gehrig<\/p>\n<p>1903\u201341, American baseball player, born in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Blaise Pascal<\/p>\n<p>scientist and religious philosopher (1623)<\/p>\n<p>Guy Lombardo<\/p>\n<p>band leader (1902)<\/p>\n<p>Daw Aung San Suu Kyi<\/p>\n<p>human rights activist (1945)<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Turner<\/p>\n<p>actress (1954)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19 1862 Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories. 1865 Gen. Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Tex., that the slaves were freed.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[69,106,103,6131],"class_list":["post-32992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}