{"id":179,"date":"2009-09-14T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:08:02","slug":"gates-mrs-velma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/09\/14\/gates-mrs-velma\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates, Mrs. Velma"},"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 Mrs. Velma Gates<\/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: Education and racial politics<\/p>\n<p>Da<span style=\"color: #000000\">te: 28 October, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mrs. Velma Gates<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: Ryan Koons<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Atandi Anyona<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Velma Gates is a retired teacher.\u00a0 She grew up in Indianola, Mississippi, and later attended Alcorn State University.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Gates describes teaching in an integrated school system.\u00a0 She details racism she encountered while growing up, and tells how her father never allowed his children to work for white people because of racism.\u00a0 She gives her opinion on the current political situation, especially Barack Obama&#8217;s bid for the American presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mrs. Velma Gates Transcript access controlled. General Topic of Interview: Education and racial politics Date: 28 October, 2008 Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mrs. Velma Gates Interviewer: Ryan Koons Transcriber: Atandi Anyona Biographical Information: Mrs. Velma Gates is a retired [&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-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}