{"id":4133,"date":"2003-01-29T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T17:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2003-01-29T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2003-01-29T17:03:48","slug":"an-oral-history-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4133","title":{"rendered":"an oral history interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our high school students interviewed a woman today who was one of only<\/p>\n<p>two African Americans at an all-White junior high school in 1956, and<\/p>\n<p>then the only one when her friend quit. She later chose to attend an all-Black<\/p>\n<p>high school because she couldn&#8217;t stand the incessant (unprintable) racial<\/p>\n<p>slurs and social ostracism. She related well with our kids (more than<\/p>\n<p>half of whom were born in Africa), and gave them good arguments for voting<\/p>\n<p>and otherwise participating. We also talked with the class about how to<\/p>\n<p>present their historical research on their Website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princegeorges.org\">www.princegeorges.org<\/p>\n<p><\/a>and came up with ideas that excited both them and us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our high school students interviewed a woman today who was one of only two African Americans at an all-White junior high school in 1956, and then the only one when her friend quit. She later chose to attend an all-Black high school because she couldn&#8217;t stand the incessant (unprintable) racial slurs and social ostracism. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-high-school-civics-class"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}