{"id":182,"date":"2009-09-14T10:09:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:09:49","slug":"lewis-mr-johnny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/09\/14\/lewis-mr-johnny\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis, Mr. Johnny"},"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. Johnny Lewis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/files\/2010\/02\/Lewis-Johnny-11-6-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Click here to download the transcript of this interview.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Education, politics, civil rights activism, and music<\/p>\n<p>Dat<span style=\"color: #000000\">e: 6 November, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr. Johnny Lewis<\/p>\n<p>Interviewers: Atandi Anyona and Max Paschall<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Atandi Anyona<\/p>\n<p>*Transcript edited by narrator<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Johnny Lewis is a retired teacher.\u00a0 He was born and raised in Simpson County, Mississippi, and attended both: the community college and Jackson State University.\u00a0 He taught English at Higgins High School and Clarksville High School.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lewis details civil rights activism in Coahoma County, as well as racial politics, and educational and economic notations of white flight area.\u00a0 He discusses blues tourism in Clarksdale, the role of music (especially gospel) in the civil rights movement.\u00a0 Mr. Lewis states his excitement at the recent election of Barack Obama to the American presidency (this interview took place two days after the election).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mr. Johnny Lewis Click here to download the transcript of this interview. General Topic of Interview: Education, politics, civil rights activism, and music Date: 6 November, 2008 Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mr. Johnny Lewis Interviewers: Atandi Anyona and Max [&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-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}