{"id":1473,"date":"2013-08-07T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:49:57","slug":"holtzclaw-william-henry-1870-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"HOLTZCLAW, WILLIAM HENRY, 1874-1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator. Born&#8211; June, 1870, near Roanoke. Parents&#8211;Jerry and Addie Greer Holtzclaw, former slaves. Married&#8211; Mary Ella Patterson. Children&#8211;five. \u00a0Education&#8211;Tuskegee Institute, 1890-1898, while employed as farm worker, office boy, and buggy driver for Booker T. Washington. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, MA, 1908; further study in summer sessions at Harvard College. Publisher of a newspaper for Afro-Americans in Alabama;\u00a0taught at the school\u00a0at Snow Hill, Ala., 1898-1902. Founded a school on the Tuskegee model\u00a0in Utica, Mississippi, in 1902;\u00a0it became Utica Normal and Industrial Institute,\u00a0the first institute of higher education for African-Americans in northern Mississippi. \u00a0Holtzclaw was director and president of\u00a0Utica Institute\u00a0for forty years, until his death.\u00a0\u00a0The Library at the school, now the Utica campus of Hinds Community College, was named in his honor when it was dedicated in 2003. Died 1943.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growing up Black, edited by David Jay; Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967; article in Roanoke Leader, March 7, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black Man&#8217;s Burden. New York; Neale Pub. Co., 1915.<\/p>\n<p>A Negro&#8217;s Life Story. Utica, Miss.; Utica Institute Electric Printing, 1908.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator. Born&#8211; June, 1870, near Roanoke. Parents&#8211;Jerry and Addie Greer Holtzclaw, former slaves. Married&#8211; Mary Ella Patterson. Children&#8211;five. \u00a0Education&#8211;Tuskegee Institute, 1890-1898, while employed as farm worker, office boy, and buggy driver for Booker T. Washington. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, MA, 1908; further study in summer sessions at Harvard College. Publisher of a newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","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=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8240,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/8240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}