{"id":40056,"date":"2025-04-28T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/famed-memphis-church-associated-with-martin-luther-king-damaged-by-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:38:56","slug":"famed-memphis-church-associated-with-martin-luther-king-damaged-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/famed-memphis-church-associated-with-martin-luther-king-damaged-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed Memphis church associated with Martin Luther King damaged by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clayborn Temple, base for sanitation workers\u2019 strike that brought King to Memphis in 1968, suffers extensive damage<\/p>\n<p>A fire has severely damaged the historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, which is closely associated with the US civil rights movement and Dr Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n<p>The temple was headquarters for the sanitation workers\u2019 strike that brought King to Memphis in 1968. The campaign\u2019s \u201cI Am a Man\u201d signs were made in the church\u2019s basement, according to the temple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/clayborn.org\/about-us\/\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/28\/fire-clayborn-church-memphis-martin-luther-king\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayborn Temple, base for sanitation workers\u2019 strike that brought King to Memphis in 1968, suffers extensive damage A fire has severely damaged the historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, which is closely associated with the US civil rights movement and Dr Martin Luther King. The temple was headquarters for the sanitation workers\u2019 strike that brought &#8230; <a title=\"Famed Memphis church associated with Martin Luther King damaged by fire\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/famed-memphis-church-associated-with-martin-luther-king-damaged-by-fire\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Famed Memphis church associated with Martin Luther King damaged by fire\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}