{"id":2080,"date":"2010-06-18T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/06\/18\/delta-state-takes-students-from-columbus-high-school-on-heritage-tour-of-the-delta\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:49","slug":"delta-state-takes-students-from-columbus-high-school-on-heritage-tour-of-the-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/06\/delta-state-takes-students-from-columbus-high-school-on-heritage-tour-of-the-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State takes students from Columbus High School on heritage tour of the Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/IMG_0862.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Columbus<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> High School<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">&#8216;s accelerated and advanced placement program recently visited the Mississippi Delta to learn about its rich cultural heritage.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning introduced the group to the Delta State campus and escorted them to Dockery Farms, the birthplace of the Blues; the grave of Civil Rights activist Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer; and the historic African American town of Mound Bayou.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Gayle Fortenberry third from right, back row, advance placement coordinator, arranged the trip.&nbsp; Dr. Luther Brown and Lee Aylward of the Delta Center, kneeling, conducted the tour.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Columbus High School&#8216;s accelerated and advanced placement program recently visited the Mississippi Delta to learn about its rich cultural heritage.&nbsp; &nbsp; The Delta State University Delta Center&#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-2080","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\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41413,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/41413"}],"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=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}