{"id":1750,"date":"2016-03-23T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T21:05:30","slug":"mcmurry-linda-ott-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"McMURRY, LINDA OTT, 1945-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; University professor. Born&#8211; October 24, 1945, Montgomery. Parents&#8211; William B. and Tressie (James) Ott. Married&#8211; James W. Hines, January 22, 1967. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Richard M. McMurry, July 12, 1980. Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211; John A. Edwards, 1997. Education&#8211; Emory University; B.A., Auburn University, 1968; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1976. Employed by Auburn University in Montgomery, 1976; Valdosta State College, 1976-1981; North Carolina State University, 1981-2001. Member Organization of American Historians; Southern Historical Association. Honors&#8211; Alabama Library Association Authors Award, 1984; Humanities Alumni Award, Auburn, 1996; College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award, NC State, 1999. Awarded emeritus status at North Carolina State on her retirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Washington Carver; Scientist and Symbol. New York; Oxford University Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Recorder of the Black Experience; a Biography of Monroe Nathan Work. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells. Oxford University Press, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; University professor. Born&#8211; October 24, 1945, Montgomery. Parents&#8211; William B. and Tressie (James) Ott. Married&#8211; James W. Hines, January 22, 1967. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Richard M. McMurry, July 12, 1980. Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211; John A. Edwards, 1997. Education&#8211; Emory University; B.A., Auburn University, 1968; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1976. Employed by Auburn University in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","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=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}