{"id":58782,"date":"2014-02-10T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T22:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=58782"},"modified":"2014-02-10T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T22:09:55","slug":"reading-program-presented-with-history-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2014\/02\/reading-program-presented-with-history-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading program presented with history and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chair of the Department of Biological and Physical Sciences Dr. Henry Outlaw recently presented a lecture on the murder of Emmett Till as part of the Como Reads program at the Emily J. Pointer Public Library in Como, Miss. Outlaw has also been involved with the Delta Center for Culture and Learning.<\/p>\n<p>The book selection for the discussion was <em>Glory Be<\/em> by\u00a0Cleveland native Augusta Scattergood.\u00a0The main theme of the book is \u201ccivil rights in smalltown Mississippi, circa 1964.&#8221; \u00a0Emmett Till&#8217;s murder\u00a0in\u00a0Sunflower\u00a0County in late August of 1955 is often described as one of the events that stimulated the modern Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the reading program or the Delta Center, please call 662-846-4311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chair of the Department of Biological and Physical Sciences Dr. Henry Outlaw recently presented a lecture on the murder of Emmett Till as part of the Como Reads program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":58784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[412,415],"class_list":["post-58782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delta-center","tag-delta-center-for-culture-and-learning","tag-henry-outlaw"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58786,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782\/revisions\/58786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}