{"id":930,"date":"2015-06-22T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=930"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:41:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:41:56","slug":"carmichael-omer-1893-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"CARMICHAEL, OMER, 1893-1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, school administrator. Born&#8211; March 7, 1893, Hollins. Parents&#8211; William and Lucy (Wilson) Carmichael. Married&#8211; Elnora Reed Blanchard, October 9, 1926. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1914; Columbia University, A.M., 1924, Harvard University, A.M., 1957; Yale University, A.M., 1957.\u00a0 Teacher in Tallapoosa County, 1911-14; in Selma, 1914-1926; Superintendent of Schools in Tampa, 1926-30; in Lynchburg, Va., 1932-45; in Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1960.\u00a0Led the Louisville school system\u00a0when it was first integrated; introduced a freedom-of-choice approach which was widely copied throughout the\u00a0South. \u00a0Taught in summer sessions at many institutions including the University of Florida, the University of Alabama, Duke University , and the University of Louisville.\u00a0President of the Alabama Education Association. Member of the American Association of School Administrators and other professional and civic organizations. Recipient of the Fiorella H. LaGuardia award, 1957; Brotherhood Award from the National Council of Christian and Jews, 1958.\u00a0\u00a0 Dartmouth College, L.H.D.; University of Kentucky, LL.D., 1957. Died January 9, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Louisville Story. New York; Simon &amp; Schuster, 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, school administrator. Born&#8211; March 7, 1893, Hollins. Parents&#8211; William and Lucy (Wilson) Carmichael. Married&#8211; Elnora Reed Blanchard, October 9, 1926. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1914; Columbia University, A.M., 1924, Harvard University, A.M., 1957; Yale University, A.M., 1957.\u00a0 Teacher in Tallapoosa County, 1911-14; in Selma, 1914-1926; Superintendent of Schools in Tampa, [&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-930","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\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6379,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}