{"id":1613,"date":"2018-08-06T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2018-08-06T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T16:26:58","slug":"knight-thomas-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"KNIGHT, THOMAS M., 1943-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor and administrator, baseball coach. Born&#8211; June 25, 1943, Monroeville, Ala. Parents&#8211;Duncan J. and Mary L. McCaskill Knight. Married&#8211;Sylvia Bledsoe-Knight. Education&#8211; Alabama State University, B.A., 1963; Kansas State College, M.A., 1969; Oklahoma State University, Ph.D., 1974; additional study at Marquette University and the University of Iowa. Taught and coached at\u00a0Blount High School, Mobile County, 1963-1967; minor league baseball coach, San Francisco Giants organization, 1964-1965; taught, Alabama State University, 1968-1971; Ottawa University in Kansas, 1971-1973; graduate research assistant, Oklahoma State University, 1974; chair, Urban Studies Dept. and director, Urban Life Center, Alabama State University; Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Vice Chancellor, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Special envoy for the Israeli Embassy to consult in Middle Eastern Affairs for 2 years. Directed a TV documentary &#8220;Black Colleges and the Performing Arts,&#8221; 1970. Lectured on &#8220;The Urban Dilemma of Black Americans.&#8221; Died August 7, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who Among Black Americans, 1980; obituary; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Separatism on the American Frontier. Washington, D.C.; University Press of America, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor and administrator, baseball coach. Born&#8211; June 25, 1943, Monroeville, Ala. Parents&#8211;Duncan J. and Mary L. McCaskill Knight. Married&#8211;Sylvia Bledsoe-Knight. Education&#8211; Alabama State University, B.A., 1963; Kansas State College, M.A., 1969; Oklahoma State University, Ph.D., 1974; additional study at Marquette University and the University of Iowa. Taught and coached at\u00a0Blount High School, Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}