{"id":2971,"date":"2012-03-01T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2012-03-01T18:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:20:29","slug":"celebrating-civil-rights-in-fairfield-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/01\/celebrating-civil-rights-in-fairfield-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating civil rights in Fairfield County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Laughlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2972\" title=\"Laughlin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Laughlin-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Laughlin-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Laughlin.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Laughlin McDonal<\/strong>d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The public is invited to a community celebration to honor civil rights activist Laughlin McDonald<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>March 3, 3 &#8211; 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Church of the Nazarene, 650 9th St., Winnsboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laughlin McDonal<\/strong>d was born and raised in Winnsboro, graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1965, and has been Director of the national Voting Rights Project of the ACLU since 1972. During his 40 years of fighting for equality, Laughlin has led the fight for equal rights in Fairfield County, across our state and our nation.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Join us for this FREE celebration!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master &amp; Mistress of Ceremony: E. Sutton &amp; Mrs. Tangee Brice Jacobs<\/p>\n<p>Invocation: Pastor Harry Varn, Church of the Nazarene<\/p>\n<p>Musical Salute: Blair Coalition of Churches Youth Choir<\/p>\n<p>Purpose of Occasion: Crosby Lewis, Former House Member; Councilman Kamau Marcharia District 4<\/p>\n<p>Greetings: Travis Medlock, Senator Creighton Coleman, Representative Boyd Brown, Sheriff Herman Young<\/p>\n<p>Dance: Saint Luke Dance Team, Saint Luke Baptist Church<\/p>\n<p>Award Presentations<\/p>\n<p>Introduction of Attorney Armand Derfner: Brett Bursey, Director of SC Progressive Network<\/p>\n<p>Introduction of Honoree: Armand Derfner,Attorney<\/p>\n<p>Honoree: Mr. Laughlin McDonald<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reception immediately following program.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laughlin McDonald \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 The public is invited to a community celebration to honor civil rights activist Laughlin McDonald March 3, 3 &#8211; 5pm Church of the Nazarene, 650 9th St., Winnsboro Laughlin McDonald was born and raised in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/01\/celebrating-civil-rights-in-fairfield-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}