{"id":188,"date":"2009-09-14T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:12:59","slug":"shelby-mr-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/09\/14\/shelby-mr-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelby, Mr. James"},"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><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p>Interview with Mr. James Shelby<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"?p=150\" target=\"_self\">Transcript access controlled.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Plantation life, Civil Rights, Education<\/p>\n<p>Date: 29 Octo<span style=\"color: #000000\">ber, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Moon Lake, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr. James Shelby<\/p>\n<p>Interviewers: Atandi Anyona and James Chapnick<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: James Chapnick<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>James Shelby\u2019s family has lived in the Moon Lake community for many generations. He was raised in the family home, which bordered two cotton plantations. Shelby observed the lifestyle of sharecroppers firsthand while growing up on Moon Lake. After his college education, Shelby was employed as an assistant principal in Friar\u2019s Point by W.J. Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Growing up between two plantations allowed Shelby to comment extensively on plantation life during the Jim Crow era. He detailed the hardships of the sharecroppers, including their perpetual debt and being cheated by the commissary store. He also described the inequities that he and his family felt growing up in the area due to racism and Jim Crow laws. Shelby explained the vast inequality present, both in modern times and in the past, in the education system in Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mr. James Shelby Transcript access controlled. General Topic of Interview: Plantation life, Civil Rights, Education Date: 29 October, 2008 Location: Moon Lake, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mr. James Shelby Interviewers: Atandi Anyona and James Chapnick Transcriber: James Chapnick Biographical Information: James [&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-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}