{"id":335,"date":"2009-11-20T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/?p=335"},"modified":"2009-11-20T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:38:24","slug":"newon-mr-johnny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/2009\/11\/20\/newon-mr-johnny\/","title":{"rendered":"Newson, Mr. Johnny"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/\/?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/\/?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Mr. Johnny Newson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/02\/Newson-Johnny-10-31-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Click here to download the transcript of this interview.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Inte<span style=\"color: #000000\">rview: Politics and the Civil Rights Movement<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Date: 31 October, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr. Johnny Newson<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer:\u00a0 Max Paschall<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Unknown<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Johnny Newson was born in Sardis, Mississippi.\u00a0 He attended Delta State University, and eventually was elected as a Coahoma County Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Newson talks about segregation and racism.\u00a0 He offers a perspective on the work of civil rights activist Dr. Aaron Henry, for whom he worked while a young man.\u00a0 He discusses education, the role of religion in the civil rights movement and in Coahoma County today, as well as political relationships between civil rights activists, especially Fannie Lou Hamer and Aaron Henry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mr. Johnny Newson Click here to download the transcript of this interview. General Topic of Interview: Politics and the Civil Rights Movement Date: 31 October, 2008 Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mr. Johnny Newson Interviewer:\u00a0 Max Paschall Transcriber: Unknown Biographical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/blackliberation2008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}