{"id":1228,"date":"2017-02-14T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:27:34","slug":"edwards-william-james-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"EDWARDS, WILLIAM JAMES, 1869-1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher; school administrator. Born&#8211; September 12, 1869, Snow Hill. Parents&#8211; Jackson and Martha Carmichael Edwards. Originally named Ulysses Grant Edwards; grandfather changed name to William James. Married&#8211;Susan Verdelle Johnson, May 17, 1900. Children&#8211;six. Education&#8211; Tuskegee Institute. Organized and operated Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, in Wilcox County, which lasted from 1893-1972 and at one point had 400 students. Died March 4, 1950.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt.<\/p>\n<p>ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong> Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt. Westport, Conn.; Negro Universities Press, 1970, c1918.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher; school administrator. Born&#8211; September 12, 1869, Snow Hill. Parents&#8211; Jackson and Martha Carmichael Edwards. Originally named Ulysses Grant Edwards; grandfather changed name to William James. Married&#8211;Susan Verdelle Johnson, May 17, 1900. Children&#8211;six. Education&#8211; Tuskegee Institute. Organized and operated Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, in Wilcox County, which lasted from 1893-1972 and at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}