{"id":5701,"date":"2017-09-01T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:04:58","slug":"the-spirit-of-freedom-newsletter-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/the-spirit-of-freedom-newsletter-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Freedom Newsletter &#8211; September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summertime and the Museum has been overflowing with visitors &#8212; tour groups, family reunions, and individuals, young and old, from the United States and abroad. They&#8217;ve all come to learn about the role the members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) played in ending slavery and keeping the United States united under one flag.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Spirit_of_Freedom_Newsletter_4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the Newsletter\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve seen the African American Civil War Memorial situated right outside the 10th Street NW exit of the U Street Metro stop, but have you been to the museum? The African American Civil War Memorial Museum easily one of DC\u2019s most hidden treasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176820,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/176820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}