{"id":55766,"date":"2016-09-24T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_charleston_area_civil_rights_activist_esau_jenkins_legacy_on_di\/"},"modified":"2016-09-24T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:00:28","slug":"local_paper_charleston_area_civil_rights_activist_esau_jenkins_legacy_on_di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55766","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Charleston area civil rights activist Esau Jenkins&#39; legacy on display at Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messages of faith and progress echoed from the edge of Gadsden\u2019s Wharf on Thursday as community leaders paid tribute to the legacy of social justice left by the late Esau Jenkins, one of Charleston\u2019s most influential civil rights figures.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Charleston helped host the event to send off Jenkins\u2019 family on a trip to Washington, D.C., for Saturday\u2019s grand opening of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of members of the Jenkins family spanning three generations will travel together on a charter bus, symbolic of the countless bus trips that Jenkins organized for African-American communities across the Sea Islands and beyond during the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/20160922\/160929818\/local-leaders-send-off-esau-jenkins-family-to-washington-with-tribute-to-his-civil-rights-legacy&#038;source=RSS\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messages of faith and progress echoed from the edge of Gadsden\u2019s Wharf on Thursday as community leaders paid tribute to the legacy of social justice left by the late Esau Jenkins, one of Charleston\u2019s most influential civil rights figures. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55766\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,133,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-history","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}