{"id":1728,"date":"2010-01-13T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/01\/13\/delta-states-delta-center-provides-delta-tours-to-rutgers-and-boston-college-students\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:08:24","slug":"delta-states-delta-center-provides-delta-tours-to-rutgers-and-boston-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/01\/delta-states-delta-center-provides-delta-tours-to-rutgers-and-boston-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State&#8217;s Delta Center provides Delta tours to Rutgers and Boston College students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"600\" align=\"center\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/Boston.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/Rutger.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"2\">Boston College<\/font><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"2\">Rutgers University <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><font size=\"2\">The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided heritage tours to visiting university students from Rutgers University in New Jersey and Boston College.&nbsp; Both groups were engaged in a week of service learning and were based primarily in the Clarksdale area.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Some of the students came to work with Teach For America in Clarksdale and Jonestown.&nbsp;The heritage tour included stops on the Delta State campus; Dockery Farms, the birthplace of the Blues; the Ruleville grave of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer; historic Mound Bayou; and Po&rsquo; Monkey&rsquo;s Lounge.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Both groups had their pictures taken in front of the Mississippi Blues Heritage Trail marker at Dockery Farms.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston College Rutgers University &nbsp; &nbsp; The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided heritage tours to visiting university students from Rutgers University in New Jersey&#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-1728","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\/1728","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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41541,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/41541"}],"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=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}