{"id":13853,"date":"2020-02-19T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/voices-lecture-today-feb-19-troys-african-american-community-its-quest-for-freedom-and-equality-before-the-american-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:13:34","slug":"voices-lecture-today-feb-19-troys-african-american-community-its-quest-for-freedom-and-equality-before-the-american-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/voices-lecture-today-feb-19-troys-african-american-community-its-quest-for-freedom-and-equality-before-the-american-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices Lecture today, Feb. 19 &#8212; Troy\u2019s African American Community: Its Quest for Freedom and Equality before the American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Troy\u2019s African American Community: Its Quest for Freedom and Equality before the American Civil War<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 1 to 1:50 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preceding the American Civil War, the African American community in Troy was the prominent center of racial justice activism. The community was recognized at that time for tenacious leadership in the state suffrage reform movement as well as the national abolition movement.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Thompson Burns, Ph.D. will reveal the rich history of Troy\u2019s antebellum African American freedom movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voices: A Library Lecture Series<\/strong> is offered each semester to broaden and enrich the scope of studies at the college by presenting speakers on timely and enduring issues.<\/p>\n<p>The public is welcome to attend; admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:13:34 +0000 by\u00a0a.rappaport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Troy\u2019s African American Community: Its Quest for Freedom and Equality before the American Civil War Wednesday, Feb. 19 from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}