{"id":7199,"date":"2018-01-29T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/31\/interactive-map-to-tell-story-of-african-american-history-in-charleston\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:00:27","slug":"interactive-map-to-tell-story-of-african-american-history-in-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/interactive-map-to-tell-story-of-african-american-history-in-charleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive map to tell story of African American history in Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute&#8217;s Diversity Leaders Initiative (DLI) may only run one day-a-month over the course of five months, but the outcomes of DLI capstone projects can have far-reaching effects. Adam Parker of <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/features\/interactive-map-in-works-to-tell-broader-story-of-african\/article_70176efc-0127-11e8-b125-f70c530c67dc.html#4\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/strong><\/em> writes about the Charleston Justice Journey, a project undertaken by 2016 DLI Fellows that aims to develop a user-friendly website featuring an interactive map of black history sites on the Charleston peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Said Riley Institute executive director Don Gordon,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhen finished, this remarkable project will highlight important parts of a forgotten journey of black South Carolinians whose history has been ignored or lost &#8230; In addition to the International African American Museum [slated to open in 2020 at Gadsden&#8217;s Wharf], the project will be part of a major historical attraction for thousands of tourists who wish to understand and help us celebrate the true history of our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute&#8217;s Diversity Leaders Initiative (DLI) may only run one day-a-month over the course of five months, but the outcomes of DLI capstone projects can have far-reaching effects. Adam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}