{"id":32170,"date":"2013-11-13T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32170"},"modified":"2013-11-13T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:47:05","slug":"tuskkegee-airmen-presentation-ron-spriggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32170","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tuskkegee Airmen,&#8221; Presentation, Ron Spriggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spriggsron3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32173\" alt=\"spriggsron3\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spriggsron3.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spriggsron3.jpg 271w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spriggsron3-254x175.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>Valley City (CSi) &#8212; VCSU is hosting &#8220;Tuskegee Airmen,&#8221; historian, Ron Spriggs, with his presentation of the &#8220;Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The program is Thursday (Nov 14, 2013) from 4-p.m., to 5:30-p.m., at Froemke Auditorium inside Foss Music Hall.<\/p>\n<p>A segregated unit, The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots in World War II, ttrained at the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Tuskegee, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Spriggs is an oral historian, lecturer and curator of the Tuskegee Airmen exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Spriggs founded the Ron Spriggs Exhibit of Tuskegee Airmen in December 2002 as an independent means of telling the history and legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City (CSi) &#8212; VCSU is hosting &#8220;Tuskegee Airmen,&#8221; historian, Ron Spriggs, with his presentation of the &#8220;Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen,&#8221; The program is Thursday (Nov 14, 2013) from 4-p.m., to 5:30-p.m., at Froemke Auditorium inside Foss Music Hall. A segregated unit, The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32170"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32176,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170\/revisions\/32176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}