{"id":47,"date":"2019-10-24T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2020-02-04T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T22:27:01","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/10\/ballad_birmingham_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for &quot;Ballad of Birmingham&quot; exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/10\/ballad_birmingham_poster.jpg 720w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/10\/ballad_birmingham_poster-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Spring 2016 semester students in Professor Martha Carothers\u2019 class&nbsp;<em>Typography II<\/em>&nbsp;created a broadside inspired by the one with which poet\/publisher Dudley Randall launched Broadside Press, a major publisher of African American poets during the nineteen sixties and seventies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadside Press\u2019s inaugural offering featured Randall\u2019s poem \u201cBallad of Birmingham,\u201d written soon after the 1963 bombing of an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama. That act of racial terror left four young girls dead. Dudley\u2019s moving poem evokes the events leading up to the girls\u2019 death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curtis Small, Jr., Curator. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Spring 2016 semester students in Professor Martha Carothers\u2019 class&nbsp;Typography II&nbsp;created a broadside inspired by the one with which poet\/publisher Dudley Randall launched Broadside Press, a major publisher of African American poets during the nineteen sixties and seventies. Broadside Press\u2019s inaugural offering featured Randall\u2019s poem \u201cBallad of Birmingham,\u201d written soon after the 1963 bombing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/ballad-of-birmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}