{"id":385,"date":"2015-08-28T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/?p=385"},"modified":"2015-08-28T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T19:48:37","slug":"currently-on-display-a-sneak-peak-into-social-justice-collections-in-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/currently-on-display-a-sneak-peak-into-social-justice-collections-in-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently on Display: A Sneak Peak into Social Justice Collections in Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAmerican University students are recognized as being amongst the most politically active in the United States. To encourage further dialog about social justice both past and present, Special Collections is exhibiting a selection of flyers, brochures, and photographs from four of its social protest collections. The exhibit looks at protests in Washington, DC from the 1890s, 1930s and 1970s as well as protest movements led by international women\u2019s organizations from the 1980s. The exhibit will be on display on the third floor of Bender Library through the end of the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>Here are few sample items from the exhibit:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_386\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/Bonus_Army_Slide_031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-386\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-386\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/Bonus_Army_Slide_031-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Bonus Army 1932\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonus Army 1932<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_388\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/Coloring-Book-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-388\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/Coloring-Book-Cover-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Women Strike for Peace 1982\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women Strike for Peace 1982<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American University students are recognized as being amongst the most politically active in the United States. To encourage further dialog about social justice both past and present, Special Collections is exhibiting a selection of flyers, brochures, and photographs from four of its social protest collections. The exhibit looks at protests in Washington, DC from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits","category-featured-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}