{"id":751,"date":"2014-02-20T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=751"},"modified":"2017-05-26T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T16:20:27","slug":"beck-martin-luther-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"BECK, MARTIN LUTHER, 1893-1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor of education; pastor. Born&#8211;November 4, 1893.\u00a0Parents&#8211;John Thomas and Mary J. Anderson Beck. Married&#8211;Eva Bergdoll.\u00a0\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; Southern Methodist University, B.A., B.D.; University of Chicago, M.A. Served as a pastor in Dallas, Texas. \u00a0Specialist in the teaching of social studies; demonstration teacher in the training school at Lee County High School; supervisor of practice teachers in the School of Education at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1928-1941.\u00a0 Owner of Beck&#8217;s Nursery Turf Company.\u00a0 Died October 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and Auburn University Libraries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Civilization. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1930.<\/p>\n<p>American Life, Yesterday and Today. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1934.<\/p>\n<p>Our American Heritage. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Our Life Together; Civics Guide. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Story of the Old World. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor of education; pastor. Born&#8211;November 4, 1893.\u00a0Parents&#8211;John Thomas and Mary J. Anderson Beck. Married&#8211;Eva Bergdoll.\u00a0\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; Southern Methodist University, B.A., B.D.; University of Chicago, M.A. Served as a pastor in Dallas, Texas. \u00a0Specialist in the teaching of social studies; demonstration teacher in the training school at Lee County High School; supervisor of practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}