{"id":5822,"date":"2017-02-15T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:38:43","slug":"museum-curator-presents-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2017\/02\/museum-curator-presents-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Curator Presents Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0156-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5823 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0156-2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0156-2\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0156-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0156-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0156-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>As part of the Diversity Month events\u00a0at Nash Community College, Earl Ijames,\u00a0Curator for North Carolina Museum of History presented &#8220;Colored Confederates&#8221; for NCC students, faculty and staff.\u00a0The film is a culmination of Ijames&#8217; research project documenting the roles of enslaved and free people of color who served in various capacities in the Confederacy and the Confederate Army. Using primary and genealogical sources, the presentation conveys the significance of Confederates of Color before the Emancipation Proclamation and after the creation of the United States Colored Troops.\u00a0 The project led to the first monument in American history in\u00a0honor of Confederates of Color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Diversity Month events\u00a0at Nash Community College, Earl Ijames,\u00a0Curator for North Carolina Museum of History presented &#8220;Colored Confederates&#8221; for NCC students, faculty and staff.\u00a0The film is a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2017\/02\/museum-curator-presents-research\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}