{"id":10356,"date":"2017-02-06T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/?p=10356"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:53:44","slug":"celebrating-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/celebrating-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\">\n<iframe id=\"kaltura_player_1749476273\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/886232\/sp\/88623200\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/28059402\/partner_id\/886232?iframeembed=true&#038;playerId=kaltura_player_1749476273&#038;entry_id=1_z6nqwgtr\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div>In observance of <span class=\"il\">Black<\/span> History Month, Dr. Zeb Baker, author and Senior Associate Director of the University Honor Program will present Miami University and the Politics of Athletic Non-discrimination.&nbsp; <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_706850565\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Thursday, February 9, 2017<\/span><\/span>, &nbsp;King Library 320 at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_706850566\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:00 pm<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In March 1947, Miami&#8217;s student body voted into place a non-discrimination policy in athletics, which prevented scheduling opponents that practiced segregation. The policy was the first of its kind in the Midwest and its stresses and strains played a defining role in Miami race relations for decades.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BlackHistoryMonthBaker-Remediated.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">BlackHistoryMonthBaker-Remediated<\/a>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In observance of Black History Month, Dr. Zeb Baker, author and Senior Associate Director of the University Honor Program will present Miami University and the Politics of Athletic Non-discrimination.&nbsp; Thursday, February 9, 2017, &nbsp;King Library 320 at 7:00 pm. &nbsp;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/celebrating-black-history-month\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12180,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions\/12180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}