{"id":129435,"date":"2026-03-04T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:15:10","slug":"reading-naacp-chief-to-deliver-talk-at-wyomissing-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129435\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading NAACP chief to deliver talk at Wyomissing library"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAACP Reading Branch President Wynton Butler will deliver a talk on the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Wyomissing Public Library, 9 Reading Blvd.<\/p>\n

Butler\u2019s talk will focus on two women who changed the course of history in 1955 by refusing to give up their seats to white passengers on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala. The boycott, which lasted for a year, resulted in major civil rights legislation. Butler also will discuss other events that led to the boycott, the Rev. Martin Luther King\u2019s leadership and involvement and the action\u2019s nationwide significance.<\/p>\n

The program is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. Register at www.wyopublib.org<\/a> or call 610-374-2385.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAACP Reading Branch President Wynton Butler will deliver a talk on the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Saturday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,858,28,128,130,129,289,706],"class_list":["post-129435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-ontap","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}