{"id":204,"date":"2007-09-12T19:46:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:00:13","slug":"mccollum-case-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;McCollum Case&#8221; article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em>From August 2007:<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Reflections of the McCollum Case :: Public i :: vol 7 no 6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publici.ucimc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click to Read\u00a0(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Article in\u00a0<strong>Urbana\u00a0newspaper <u>The\u00a0Public i<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0by former Champaign\u00a0mayor <strong>Dannel McCollum<\/strong> about understanding the significance of the case brought against the <strong>Champaign School District<\/strong> in 1945 by his mother, the late <strong>Vashti Cromwell McCollum<\/strong>, that challenged the presence of sectarian religious classes in public schools.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/em>\u00a0When linking elsewhere, I usually don&#8217;t stray from the expected <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> targets as it may seem I&#8217;ve done here. However, apart from offering food for thought that is rendered with intelligence and clarity,\u00a0McCollum&#8217;s article will introduce you to the subject matter of the next documentary by award-winning Champaign filmmaker <strong>Jay Rosenstein<\/strong>, <strong>THE LORD IS NOT ON TRIAL HERE TODAY<\/strong>. The derision apparently directed towards Cromwell McCollum during and after\u00a0the 1945-8 court hearings strikes an eerie parallel to that which Rosenstein originally faced while making <strong><a title=\"IN WHOSE HONOR? :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inwhosehonor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IN WHOSE HONOR?<\/a><\/strong> a half century later.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article in Urbana newspaper The Public i about the case brought against the Champaign School District by the late Vashti Cromwell McCollum, challenging the presence of sectarian religious classes in public schools. Also, your editor explains its inclusion here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-coverage","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}