{"id":679,"date":"2009-02-11T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2017-01-05T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:06:45","slug":"diversity-and-digital-collectionsfau-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/diversity-and-digital-collectionsfau-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity and Digital Collections@FAU Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Black History Month, the Digital Library features its Pearl City Oral History Collection. Pearl City was Boca Raton\u2019s pioneering African-American community. One of the featured interviews is with Ms. Lois Dolphus Martin where she describes her 1930s segregated school experience at Roadman\u2019s Elementary School, the first school in Pearl City.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The Roadman Elementary School\"Roadman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The school was first called Boca Elementary and the name was changed when it was moved to Dixie Highway and what is now Glades Road here in Boca Raton, Florida.\u00a0\u00a0 Martin\u2019s firsthand account sheds light on race relations as they existed in Delray Beach and Boca, and the events and changes over the decades which brought diversity to our community. To read and listen to Lois Martin\u2019s interview or other Pearl City resident interviews click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Black History Month, the Digital Library features its Pearl City Oral History Collection. Pearl City was Boca Raton\u2019s pioneering African-American community. One of the featured interviews is with Ms. Lois Dolphus Martin where she describes her 1930s segregated school experience at Roadman\u2019s Elementary School, the first school in Pearl City. \u00a0The Roadman Elementary School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[10,186,104,102,101,196,103,63,99,100],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-library","category-electronic-resources","tag-add-new-tag","tag-african-americans","tag-african-american-community","tag-black-history","tag-boca-raton","tag-digital-collections","tag-florida-history","tag-oral-history","tag-pearl-city","tag-segregation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}