{"id":2,"date":"2022-12-15T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:36:52","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mount Holyoke Years of Barbara Smith, Class of 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2022\/12\/Barbara-Smith-Photos-1024x805-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2022\/12\/Barbara-Smith-Photos-1024x805-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2022\/12\/Barbara-Smith-Photos-1024x805-1-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2022\/12\/Barbara-Smith-Photos-1024x805-1-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In celebration of Barbara Smith class of 1969&#8217;s 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary reunion and conferring of her Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the 2019 commencement, Archives and Special Collections curated an exhibit that uniquely shares Smith\u2019s engagement and impact on our campus. Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar. Her groundbreaking contributions have created a framework to articulate and understand the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender on a personal, social, and political level. Through direct action, intentional community building, and the written word in the student newspaper, Smith was an active leader on many social justice causes on and off campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original exhibit curated by Micha Broadnax, Digital Projects Archivist with assistance from Miesha Moss <strong>&#8216;<\/strong>19; online adaptation by Lindsey Restelli &#8217;22, and Tracey Kry &#8217;04, Digital Collections Archivist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more about Barbara Smith\u2019s time at Mount Holyoke, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:archives@mtholyoke.edu\">archives@mtholyoke.edu<\/a> or 413-538-2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Barbara Smith class of 1969&#8217;s 50th\u00a0anniversary reunion and conferring of her Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the 2019 commencement, Archives and Special Collections curated an exhibit that uniquely shares Smith\u2019s engagement and impact on our campus. Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar. Her groundbreaking contributions have created a framework [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}