{"id":19627,"date":"2012-01-07T10:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2012-01-07T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T10:43:03","slug":"glimpse-of-a-visionary-jeffrey-campbell-%e2%80%9933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19627","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse of a Visionary: Jeffrey Campbell \u201933"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawu.edu\/magazine\/winter06\/campbell.html\">Glimpse of a Visionary: Jeffrey Campbell \u201933<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawu.edu\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Lawrence University Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawu.edu\/magazine\/winter06\/\" target=\"_blank\">Winter 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawu.edu\/research\/profiles\/peraza.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Peraza \u201906<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Campbell \u201933 is generally thought of as St. Lawrence\u2019s first African-American graduate. In a University Fellowship paper, Steve Peraza \u201906, a history and sociology double major from New York City, contends that Campbell deserves to be recognized on different and broader grounds. \u201cMuch of the attention brought to Jeffrey Campbell\u2019s name at St. Lawrence University has centered on Campbell\u2019s social status as the first African American student to graduate,\u201d Peraza writes, \u201cnot his accomplishments as an exemplary American citizen committed to his \u2018faith and works\u2019. Campbell may never have accepted that legacy; he might have more readily identified with a legacy that posits him as a progressive-minded and intellectually motivated Unitarian Universalist minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The son of a blue-eyed, blond-haired white woman and a Black Boston attorney, Campbell admits in a brief autobiographical sketch that he bore the psychological and social \u201cburden\u201d of mixed racial lineage from his birth on March 1, 1910 (he died September 16, 1984). Perhaps those moments in which the Campbell family had to guard their safety because of racial discrimination led Campbell to ignore his \u201cracial condition\u201d and \u201cestablish [his] individuality\u201d as a human being and not a Black human being&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawu.edu\/magazine\/winter06\/campbell.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glimpse of a Visionary: Jeffrey Campbell \u201933 St. Lawrence University Magazine Winter 2006 Steve Peraza \u201906 Jeffrey Campbell \u201933 is generally thought of as St. Lawrence\u2019s first African-American graduate. In a University Fellowship paper, Steve Peraza \u201906, a history and sociology double major from New York City, contends that Campbell deserves to be recognized on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,20],"tags":[9150,9149,9148,9151,9152,9153],"class_list":["post-19627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jeffrey-campbell","tag-jeffrey-w-campbell","tag-jeffrey-worthington-campbell","tag-st-lawrence-university","tag-st-lawrence-university-magazine","tag-steve-peraza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}