{"id":8,"date":"2017-12-14T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/dh4sa\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2019-05-24T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T20:01:14","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author-235170896 font-size-medium\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/rose.library.emory.edu\/\">Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library<\/a> (Rose Library) at Emory University is pleased to announce the symposium, \u201cBlacks on the Left&#8221; (May 31-June 1, 2019). <\/span><span class=\"author-235170896 font-color-000000 font-size-medium\">The plenary speaker will be Keith Gilyard.<\/span><span class=\"author-235170896 font-color-1c1c1c font-size-medium\">\u00a0Dr. Gilyard is <\/span><span class=\"author-235170896 font-color-333333 font-size-medium\">Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State, author of two recent monographs on prominent civil rights activists whose papers are held by the Rose Library: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/louise-thompson-patterson\"><span class=\"author-235170896 font-color-333333 font-size-medium i\"><i>Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice<\/i><\/span><\/a> <span class=\"author-235170896 font-color-333333 font-size-medium\">(2017) and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/index.php\/books\/john_oliver_killens\"><span class=\"author-235170896 font-color-333333 font-size-medium i\"><i>John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism<\/i><\/span><\/a> <span class=\"author-235170896 font-color-333333 font-size-medium\">(2010).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the symposium, contact Courtney Chartier (courtney [dot] chartier [at] emory.edu) and Joseph Benavides (joseph [dot] benavides [at] emory.edu).<\/p>\n<p>RSVP at <a href=\"https:\/\/blacksontheleft19.eventbrite.com\">https:\/\/blacksontheleft19.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (Rose Library) at Emory University is pleased to announce the symposium, \u201cBlacks on the Left&#8221; (May 31-June 1, 2019). The plenary speaker will be Keith Gilyard.\u00a0Dr. Gilyard is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State, author of two recent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/blacksontheft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}