{"id":1558,"date":"2009-10-20T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/10\/20\/delta-state-takes-mississippi-center-for-justice-on-heritage-tour\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:54:31","slug":"delta-state-takes-mississippi-center-for-justice-on-heritage-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/10\/delta-state-takes-mississippi-center-for-justice-on-heritage-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State takes Mississippi Center for Justice on heritage tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"550\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/DSCN1723.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/DSCN1725.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Mississippi Center for Justice brought their staff, members of their advisory board, and representatives of various foundations that fund their programs to the Delta last weekend.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Many of the 60 participants were lawyers, and came from as far as Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">They were escorted on a two-day tour by Dr. Luther Brown of the Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The group visited Indianola, Cleveland, Merigold, Mound Bayou, Ruleville, Greenwood, and Greenville.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The tour include stops at the B. B. King Museum, the Delta State campus, Po&rsquo; Monkey&rsquo;s Lounge, the Taborian Hospital, Fannie Lou Hamer&rsquo;s grave, Warfield Park, Greenville&rsquo;s Hebrew Union Temple, and the Flood Museum, among other places.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">On Saturday night, the group tasted several varieties of Delta tamales at the Turnrow Book Store in Greenwood and listened to musician Duff Dorrough play the blues at Robert Johnson&rsquo;s grave at midnight.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">They were also greeted by Carolyn McAdams and Heather McTeer Hudson, mayors of Greenwood and Greenville respectively. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Photo Caption:&nbsp; Some of the participants in the recent Heritage tour presented by the Mississippi Center for Justice and the Delta Center for Culture and Learning.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Mississippi Center for Justice brought their staff, members of their advisory board, and representatives of various foundations that fund their programs to the Delta last weekend.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41593,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/41593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}