{"id":2442,"date":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/02\/21\/delta-state-to-present-lunch-learn-lecture-with-ben-sperry\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:16","slug":"delta-state-to-present-lunch-learn-lecture-with-ben-sperry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/02\/delta-state-to-present-lunch-learn-lecture-with-ben-sperry\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to present &#8216;Lunch &amp; Learn Lecture&#8217; with Ben Sperry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"241\" width=\"160\" align=\"left\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Dr. Benjamin O. Sperry\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/BenSperry_headshot.jpeg\" \/>Dr. Benjamin O. Sperry, professor of History at Cleveland State University in Ohio, will present a &quot;Lunch and Learn Lecture&quot; at noon, Thursday, March 3, to be held in The Lucy Somerville Howorth Seminar Room of the Delta State Capps Archives and Museum. <\/p>\n<p>Sperry will discuss his research on Walter Sillers Jr. (1888-1966), the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives for 22 years and a force in state politics for half a century. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sillers of Rosedale, was a key supporter of Delta State in the legislature and led the House during the peak period of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sperry spent the 2009-2010 academic year at Delta State as a visiting professor of history.<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to attend this free event.&nbsp; Refreshments will be provided. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Benjamin O. Sperry, professor of History at Cleveland State University in Ohio, will present a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","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\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41287,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/41287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}