{"id":33882,"date":"2018-01-18T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=33882"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:26:18","slug":"bishop-john-hurst-adams-50-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/bishop-john-hurst-adams-50-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop John Hurst Adams (&#8217;50, &#8217;56)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Bishop-Adams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Bishop-Adams-534x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Adams\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33924\" width=\"409\" height=\"230\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From &#8220;The State,&#8221; a Columbia, SC newspaper:<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. John Hurst Adams, a nationwide religious and civil rights leader, a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr., a Columbia native and one of the strongest voices for removing the Confederate flag from the S.C. State House dome, died Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Adams stood out in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and among activists in the nation\u2019s fight for racial justice, bringing the two platforms together for a time in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>More can be read about the life of Bishop John Hurst Adams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article194255979.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can view his funeral book here: <a href=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Rev-John-Hurst-Adams-Funeral-Book.pdf\">Rev John Hurst Adams Funeral Book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;The State,&#8221; a Columbia, SC newspaper: The Rev. John Hurst Adams, a nationwide religious and civil rights leader, a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr., a Columbia native and one of the strongest voices for removing the Confederate flag from the S.C. State House dome, died Wednesday. Adams stood out in the African Methodist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39452,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882\/revisions\/39452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}