{"id":3120,"date":"2012-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/06\/19\/spreading-the-word-about-the-deltas-heritage\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:15","slug":"spreading-the-word-about-the-deltas-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/06\/spreading-the-word-about-the-deltas-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading the Word about the Delta&#8217;s Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"393\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2012 Releases\/DSC_0860.jpg\" alt=\"Teach For America staff members and new teachers and Robertson Scholars touring Dockery Farms.\" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently provided a heritage tour for Teach For America recruits and Robertson Scholars.&nbsp; The tour stopped at Dockery Farms, Fannie Lou Hamer&rsquo;s grave, historic Mound Bayou, and Po&rsquo; Monkey&rsquo;s Lounge, among other places.&nbsp; Participants included Teach For America staff members and new teachers, as well as ten Robertson Scholars from Duke and the University of North Carolina.&nbsp; It was led by Luther Brown and Lee Aylward of the Delta Center.&nbsp; The Delta Center is currently the manager of the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently provided a heritage tour for Teach For America recruits and Robertson Scholars. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","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\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41002,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/41002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}