{"id":73,"date":"2023-08-04T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2024-10-04T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T17:58:55","slug":"carolyn-h-howard-french-1947","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/carolyn-h-howard-french-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn H. Howard French, 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/node\/1350202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230801_0007-copy-632x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\" style=\"width:316px;height:512px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230801_0007-copy-632x1024.jpg 632w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230801_0007-copy-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230801_0007-copy-768x1243.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230801_0007-copy.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>Carolyn Howard French, 1947<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere was freedom of choice to choose friends, and be chosen for other reasons. Instinctively, I knew which people would be repugnant to me as well as I to them. One of those persons, a classmate from Alabama, said in the presence of another Black classmate in another dorm that her parents would die if they knew she was eating at the same table with a Black student. My Black friend made it her business to sit at that table when the Alabama parents visited. There was much open, sincere conversation &#8211; some of it fostered by the Fellowship of Faith &#8211; about interracial relationships and problems\u2026And perhaps unguarded remarks revealing personal racism on the part of \u201cfriends\u201d were painful.\u201d*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*<em>1973 Interview with Sharon E. Lewis&nbsp; for History 265 \u201cBlack and White Americans\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was freedom of choice to choose friends, and be chosen for other reasons. Instinctively, I knew which people would be repugnant to me as well as I to them. One of those persons, a classmate from Alabama, said in the presence of another Black classmate in another dorm that her parents would die if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}