{"id":4309,"date":"2018-02-14T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T04:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2024-02-12T08:33:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:33:39","slug":"african-american-history-month-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/african-american-history-month-education\/","title":{"rendered":"African American History Month Heroes – Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tarpon Springs Campus<\/a> students created a display of heroes who are not often listed during the celebration of African American History Month. The display will be in the Library\/Learning Center in the campus’ FA building through the end of February.<\/em><\/p>\n

This blog post was written by Emily Adkins, one of the students who helped create the Tarpon Springs Campus<\/a> display of African American History Month heroes. Ethan Hart, Associate Director of Learning Resources at the Tarpon Springs Campus, worked with students to develop this project.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexander Crummell, Edward A. Bouchet and Ramona Edelin are among African American History Month heroes whose work has impacted the education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alexander Crummell<\/h5>\n
\"Portrait<\/a>
Alexander Crummel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Alexander Crummell was a pioneering African American minister, academic and African nationalist. He founded St. Luke\u2019s Episcopal Church, in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

Edward Bouchet<\/h5>\n
\"Portrait<\/a>
Edward Bouchet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

In 1876, Edward Bouchet became the first African American to earn a doctorate degree in Physics and one of only six people to receive a Ph.D. in Physics from an American university.<\/p>\n

Ramona Edelin<\/h5>\n
\"Portrait<\/a>
Ramona Edelin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ramona Edelin was the founder of the Department of African American Studies at Northeastern University and has been recognized by Ebony<\/em> magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans.<\/p>\n

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Alexander Crummell, Edward A. Bouchet and Ramona Edelin are among those African American History Month heroes honored at a Tarpon Springs Campus display celebrating African American history this February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1736,"featured_media":4419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}