{"id":177,"date":"2009-09-14T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:06:35","slug":"catching-mr-troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/09\/14\/catching-mr-troy\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching, Mr. Troy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Mr. Troy Catching<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=150\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Transcript access controlled.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Racial relations and education<\/p>\n<p>Dat<span style=\"color: #000000\">e: 10 October, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr. Troy Catching<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: Ryan Koons<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Unknown<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Troy Catchings was born and raised in Clarkesdale, Mississippi.\u00a0 While still young man, he participated in several local civil rights movement events, including marches.\u00a0 He attended Jackson State University while it was still Jackson State College, and eventually became the executive director for Coahoma Opportunity Inc. \u00a0Mr. Catchings is now the first black photographer at the Clarkesdale Press Register.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Catchings describes a number of racist encounters he experienced during childhood and their affect on him.\u00a0 He discusses some of the pressures upon a black photographer even this long after the civil rights movement.\u00a0 As the former executive director of an institution with low income-targeted programs, he critiques negative racial relations in the programming.\u00a0 He also details Northern misconceptions of the Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mr. Troy Catching Transcript access controlled. General Topic of Interview: Racial relations and education Date: 10 October, 2008 Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mr. Troy Catching Interviewer: Ryan Koons Transcriber: Unknown Biographical Information: Troy Catchings was born and raised in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}