{"id":2241,"date":"2018-05-21T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:27:12","slug":"white-lavis-court-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"WHITT, LEOVIS COATS, 1917-1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher; poet. Born&#8211; May 11, 1917, in Limestone County. Parents&#8211;John Thomas and Malah Bell\u00a0Blair Coats. \u00a0Married&#8211; Carlton Dennis Whitt. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Athens College, A.B., 1940, M.A.T., 1971.; additional study at Florence State College, the University of Alabama, the University of Mississippi, and the University of London.\u00a0 Taught in Limestone County and Athens City Schools. Member&#8211; American Association of University Women, Sigma Tau Delta, Alabama Archaeological Society, Huntsville Literary Association, Decatur Art Guild. Died May 6, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Public Library Service; findagrave website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Altar of Words. 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher; poet. Born&#8211; May 11, 1917, in Limestone County. Parents&#8211;John Thomas and Malah Bell\u00a0Blair Coats. \u00a0Married&#8211; Carlton Dennis Whitt. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Athens College, A.B., 1940, M.A.T., 1971.; additional study at Florence State College, the University of Alabama, the University of Mississippi, and the University of London.\u00a0 Taught in Limestone County and Athens City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}