{"id":99,"date":"2019-10-22T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2019-10-22T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:25:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/10\/cover-broadside-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for &quot;A Celebration of Broadside Press&quot; exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-124\" width=\"579\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/10\/cover-broadside-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/10\/cover-broadside-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/10\/cover-broadside-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/10\/cover-broadside.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Broadside Press<br><br><\/strong>Broadside Press was the first important publisher of the work of Black American poets. Librarian and poet Dudley Randall launched the venture in 1965. He did the editing work out of his Detroit home, at first employing the broadside format that gave the press its name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadsides are single sheets bearing print. &nbsp;For centuries this ephemeral form has allowed individuals and groups to engage in public debate through the spread of ideas and information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following in this tradition, the broadside poems that first emerged from Randall\u2019s press addressed issues that were important to many Americans during the nineteen sixties. \u201cBallad of Birmingham\u201d was the first broadside issued by the press. It was Randall\u2019s own poem, evoking the 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadside Press Broadside Press was the first important publisher of the work of Black American poets. Librarian and poet Dudley Randall launched the venture in 1965. He did the editing work out of his Detroit home, at first employing the broadside format that gave the press its name. Broadsides are single sheets bearing print. &nbsp;For [&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-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/broadside-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}