{"id":8399,"date":"2011-06-23T08:52:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2011-06-23T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:52:36","slug":"an-early-visit-from-president-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2011\/06\/an-early-visit-from-president-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"An Early Visit from President Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Janice Schulz<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/williams-lecture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8400\" style=\"margin: 6px\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/williams-lecture.jpg\" alt=\"Flyer for William's lecture\" width=\"290\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a>While processing a new collection last week, I stumbled upon a flyer announcing that someone now very familiar to us was a guest speaker during African American History month in 1995 \u2013 our own President Gregory Williams. Then the dean of Ohio State University\u2019s law school, President Williams came to UC on February 28 to talk about his autobiography, <em>Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy who Discovered he was Black,<\/em> and to do a book signing. The book was newly published at the time and it even landed President Williams on Oprah the week before his UC visit. Langsam, UC-Clermont and UC-Blue Ash Libraries all have copies of the book cataloged as <a href=\"http:\/\/uclid.uc.edu\/search\/c?SEARCH=KF373.W474+A3&amp;submit.x=77&amp;submit.y=13\">KF373.W474 A3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Janice Schulz While processing a new collection last week, I stumbled upon a flyer announcing that someone now very familiar to us was a guest speaker during African American History month in 1995 \u2013 our own President Gregory Williams. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2011\/06\/an-early-visit-from-president-williams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[52,66],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arb","category-uclibraries","tag-uc-history","tag-university-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}