{"id":1474,"date":"2012-10-17T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2018-06-08T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T17:19:32","slug":"holloway-lucy-ariel-williams-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"HOLLOWAY, LUCY ARIEL WILLIAMS, 1905-1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician, educator, poet. Born&#8211; March 3, 1905, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Dr.\u00a0 H. Roger Williams and Fannie Brandon Williams.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Joaquin M. Holloway.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; Emerson Institute, Mobile; graduate of Talladega College, 1922; Fisk University, B.A., 1926; Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Bachelor of Music with a maor in piano and a minor in voice, 1926.\u00a0 Further study at Columbia University.\u00a0 Director of music, North Carolina College for Negroes, 1926-32; taught music at Dunbar High School in Mobile, 1932-36; supervisor of music for Mobile Public School System, 1939-73. Performed locally as a concert pianist. Contributor to periodicals and anthologies; published poems in <em>Opportunity<\/em>,one of the leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance, 1926-1935. Member Music Educators National Conference, Mobile County, Alabama, and American Teachers Associations. Ariel Holloway Elementary School in Mobile was named in her honor.\u00a0 Died January 3, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph, Harlem Renaissance and Beyond; Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945. Boston: G.K.Hall, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Countee Cullen&#8217;s Caroling Dusk. Harper, 1927; James Weldon Johnson&#8217;s Book of American Negro Poetry. Harcourt, 1931.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shape Them into Dreams; Poems. New York; Exposition Press, 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Musician, educator, poet. Born&#8211; March 3, 1905, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Dr.\u00a0 H. Roger Williams and Fannie Brandon Williams.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Joaquin M. Holloway.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; Emerson Institute, Mobile; graduate of Talladega College, 1922; Fisk University, B.A., 1926; Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Bachelor of Music with a maor in piano and a minor in voice, 1926.\u00a0 Further study [&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-1474","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\/1474","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=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8234,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}