{"id":1541,"date":"2013-02-24T18:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2015-01-24T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T23:09:59","slug":"old-linden-colored-school-january-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/old-linden-colored-school-january-1928\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Linden Colored School, January 1928"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1543\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lindencoloredschool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543\" alt=\"Old Linden Colored School\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lindencoloredschool.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lindencoloredschool.jpg 299w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lindencoloredschool-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">picture courtesy of Tennessee State Library and Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0Front and side views of a wooden church building being used as a school.\u00a0 There is a large bell tower in front of the building.\u00a0 Two individuals are standing on steps.<\/p>\n<p>The first school for African Americans in Linden employed one teacher.\u00a0 Classes were originally held in an old abandoned building owned by Mrs. Adeline Brashear Craig.\u00a0 Later it was moved to Robert&#8217;s Chapel A.M.E. Church. Here it remained for a period of 60 years.\u00a0 A new school was completed in 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Front and side views of a wooden church building being used as a school.\u00a0 There is a large bell tower in front of the building.\u00a0 Two individuals are standing on steps. The first school for African Americans in Linden employed one teacher.\u00a0 Classes were originally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-black","category-yesterdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}