{"id":3144,"date":"2012-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/07\/12\/the-delta-center-provides-family-reunion-heritage-tour\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:12","slug":"the-delta-center-provides-family-reunion-heritage-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/07\/the-delta-center-provides-family-reunion-heritage-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delta Center provides family reunion heritage tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/IMG_8180.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><b>Photo:<\/b>&nbsp; Members of the Smith-Anderson-Hubbard reunion tour group in the memorial park at Fannie Lou Hamer&rsquo;s grave in Ruleville.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">CLEVELAND, Miss. &#8212; The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided a heritage tour for the Smith-Anderson-Hubbard family reunion.&nbsp; The reunion, held in Renova, attracted more than 150 family members, 90 of whom participated in the tour.&nbsp; <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">The group visited Dockery Farms, the grave of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, and the old Bryant store in Money, MS, where Emmett Till supposedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, leading to his murder.&nbsp; They later toured the B. B. King Museum in Indianola.&nbsp; Some tour participants were personally involved in the Civil Rights Movement, including a former Freedom Rider, people who knew and worked with Mrs. Hamer, and some who knew Emmett Till&rsquo;s mother, Mamie Till Mobley.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided a heritage tour for the Smith-Anderson-Hubbard family reunion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3144","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\/3144","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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40990,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/40990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}