{"id":2222,"date":"1969-03-13T00:23:00","date_gmt":"1969-03-13T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2018-10-25T00:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:24:45","slug":"afro-am-room-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1969\/03\/13\/afro-am-room-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Am room created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 13, 1969<\/p>\n<p>Afro-Am room created<\/p>\n<p><i>(Date is for when it was reported in the Sophian)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In March, 1969 the college designated a space in Davis as the African American Studies Room, described as \u201ca convenient central meeting place\u201d that would host mixers, receptions, and meetings of the BSA. On a \u201cwidely separated campus,\u201d the room was intended as a place for Black students to socialize, study, or just get away from the tensions of a white college.\u201d A handful of resource collections were also housed here, including books and music (records) related to Black and African culture.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1969.03.13-Afro-Am-Room-Serves-As-Center-For-Black-Girls-e1538430812612.jpg\"><b><i>Afro-Am Room Serves As Center For Black Girls <\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 24, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 13, 1969 Afro-Am room created (Date is for when it was reported in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[107,54],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-107","tag-black-students-alliance","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}