{"id":8036,"date":"2019-02-28T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/28\/freddie-stowers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:19:24","slug":"freddie-stowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/freddie-stowers\/","title":{"rendered":"First African-American recipient of the WWI Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While researching\u00a0African-Americans who served in the WWI American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from her\u00a0community, oral historian and Furman History Professor Courtney L. Tollison Hartness discovered the compelling story of a soldier who perished Sept. 28, 1918 during the <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Battle of Meuse-Argonne.\u00a0Freddie Stowers of Sandy Springs, South Carolina, was the first African-American recipient of the WWI Medal of Honor. But he didn&#8217;t receive the award until 73 years after his death. Tollison&#8217;s story about Stowers and the racial inequities surrounding military honors, appears on the website for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwar1centennial.org\/index.php\/articles-posts\/5956-freddie-stowers-a-story-about-the-first-african-american-recipient-of-the-wwi-medal-of-honor.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">United States\u00a0World War I Centennial Commission.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching\u00a0African-Americans who served in the WWI American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from her\u00a0community, oral historian and Furman History Professor Courtney L. Tollison Hartness discovered the compelling story of a soldier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","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=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}