{"id":3530,"date":"2013-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/02\/25\/delta-center-assists-in-planning-mississippi-freedom-trail-tour\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:34","slug":"delta-center-assists-in-planning-mississippi-freedom-trail-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/02\/delta-center-assists-in-planning-mississippi-freedom-trail-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center Assists in Planning Mississippi Freedom Trail Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"PHOTO:  The students on the Jack and Jill tour, in the chapel at Tugaloo College in Jackson.  Photo by Joli Cooper.\" src=\"\/Images\/J_&amp;_J_-_8th_Annual_Regional_Trip_-_Picture_of_Kids_at_Tougaloo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently helped Jack and Jill of America, Inc., a nation-wide African American family organization, plan its Mississippi Freedom Trail Tour.&nbsp; This was the group&rsquo;s first tour in Mississippi, and their eighth annual tour of America.&nbsp; Parents and children spent time in Jackson, the Delta, and Philadelphia, MS.&nbsp; While in the Delta, the group learned about the murder of Emmett Till at the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in Glendora; talked with Mr. Charles McLaurin about the life of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, and learned about Amzie Moore&rsquo;s life from Mrs. Margaret Block.&nbsp; They also toured Mound Bayou. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joli Cooper, organizer with Jack and Jill said &ldquo;We arrived in strong numbers and experienced an unbelievable journey through our rich and sometimes tough Civil Rights history.&rdquo;&nbsp; Commenting specifically about the Delta portion of the trip, she said &ldquo; Everything was fantastic.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently helped Jack and Jill of America, Inc., a nation-wide African American family organization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":48410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","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\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40827,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/40827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}