{"id":5688,"date":"2011-07-17T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.241.171.69\/~afroamcivilwar\/website\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:05:52","slug":"african-american-civil-war-museum-celebrates-reopening-in-larger-location-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/african-american-civil-war-museum-celebrates-reopening-in-larger-location-2\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Civil War Museum Dedication Honors Black Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1962, Frank Smith Jr. left Morehouse College in Atlanta and went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Holly Springs, he met a man who turned out to be the descendant of an African American Civil War veteran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found it ironic that a guy whose grandfather had fought to end slavery and preserve the Union was still being treated like a second-class citizen, not even allowed to vote,\u201d Smith told me recently. \u201cSo I started reading about the soldiers.\u201d<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/african-american-civil-war-museum-dedication-honors-black-soldiers\/2011\/07\/17\/gIQA5IAZKI_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead Full Story\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1962, Frank Smith Jr. left Morehouse College in Atlanta and went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Holly Springs, he met a man who turned out to be the descendant of an African American Civil War veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21071,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/21071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}