{"id":847,"date":"2016-12-08T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=847"},"modified":"2017-07-12T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:51:08","slug":"brooks-olive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"BROOKS, OLIVE, 1897-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clerical worker; public relations; journalist. Born&#8211;\u00a0 July 23, 1897, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Stewart and Emma Connor\u00a0Brooks. Education&#8211; Attended Shorter College, Randolph Macon Woman&#8217;s College, the University of Arizona, Columbia University and the New School of Social Research. Worked as a secretary in Mobile; Deputy clerk in the U.S. District Court in Mobile; worked in public relations in New York; \u00a0chief of the public relations unit for the U.S. Army District Engineers in the Panama Canal, 1941-1946; writer-editor for the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone Government, 1962-1964; vice chairman for the Canal Zone Regional Democratic Party, correspondent for various U.S. newspapers and news magazines; copyreader, reporter and desk editor for The Panama American, 1949-1969. Died January 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in American Politics, 1979; ancestry.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Panama Quadrant, poetry. New York; s.n., 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clerical worker; public relations; journalist. Born&#8211;\u00a0 July 23, 1897, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Stewart and Emma Connor\u00a0Brooks. Education&#8211; Attended Shorter College, Randolph Macon Woman&#8217;s College, the University of Arizona, Columbia University and the New School of Social Research. Worked as a secretary in Mobile; Deputy clerk in the U.S. District Court in Mobile; worked in public [&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-847","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\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}