{"id":1437,"date":"2015-10-29T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2015-11-02T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:23:36","slug":"a-conversation-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-gilbert-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"CANCELLED: A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning  author Gilbert King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GilbertKingColor1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GilbertKingColor1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"GilbertKingColor1\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GilbertKingColor1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GilbertKingColor1-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GilbertKingColor1-624x779.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GilbertKingColor1.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Due to scheduling challenges, our planned event with Gilbert King has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>His book, <em>Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America<\/em>, delves into the 1949 story of four African-American men accused of raping a young white woman in Florida. Thurgood Marshall was sent by the NAACP to defend the young men.<\/p>\n<p>Devil In the Grove was the 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize runner-up for non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to scheduling challenges, our planned event with Gilbert King has been cancelled. His book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, delves into the 1949 story of four African-American men accused of raping a young white woman in Florida. Thurgood Marshall was sent by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thomas-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}