{"id":3252,"date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/10\/02\/mississippi-development-authority-to-unveil-two-stops-on-the-mississippi-freedom-trail\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:01","slug":"mississippi-development-authority-to-unveil-two-stops-on-the-mississippi-freedom-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/10\/mississippi-development-authority-to-unveil-two-stops-on-the-mississippi-freedom-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Development Authority to unveil two stops on the Mississippi Freedom Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"1349207398063S\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" src=\"\/Images\/MFT_Emmett_Till_Marker_A.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO:  The first stop on the Mississippi Freedom Trail, in Money, Mississippi.  Photo by Daniel Ethridge.  \" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Development Authority will unveil two new stops on the Mississippi Freedom Trail, our Civil Rights interpretive trail.&nbsp; Both unveilings will be on Thursday, October 4.&nbsp; At 2&nbsp; p.m., a stop honoring Civil Rights activist and businessman Dr. T. R. M. Howard will be unveiled at 203 Edwards Avenue in Mound Bayou.&nbsp; At 4 p.m., the second stop honoring Cleveland&rsquo;s own Amzie Moore will be unveiled at his former home at 614 Chrisman Avenue in Cleveland.&nbsp; These events are free and open to the public. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Freedom Trail began when two participants in a heritage tour conducted by the Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning volunteered to fund the first two stops on the trail.&nbsp; Funding is now available for thirty stops.&nbsp; Most recently, the state unveiled a stop honoring James Meredith at Ole Miss commemorating the 50th anniversary of his enrollment which prompted the end of the university&#8217;s official policy of racial segregation.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO:&nbsp; The first stop on the Mississippi Freedom Trail, in Money, Mississippi.&nbsp; Photo by Daniel Ethridge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi Development Authority will unveil two new stops on the Mississippi Freedom Trail, our Civil Rights interpretive trail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","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\/3252","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=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40947,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/40947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}