{"id":28723,"date":"2013-02-12T22:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28723"},"modified":"2013-02-12T22:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:51:39","slug":"in-fact-more-than-forty-black-men-and-women-candidates-paved-the-way-for-a-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28723","title":{"rendered":"In fact, more than forty black men and women candidates paved the way for a black president"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> was not the first African American to seriously pursue the presidency. In fact, more than forty black men and women candidates paved the way for a black president; Obama stands on the shoulders of those other black leaders and politicians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz, \u201cIntroduction: The African American Quest for the Presidency,\u201d in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=28699\" target=\"_blank\">African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House<\/a><\/em> (New York, London: Routledge, 2009), 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama was not the first African American to seriously pursue the presidency. In fact, more than forty black men and women candidates paved the way for a black president; Obama stands on the shoulders of those other black leaders and politicians. Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz, \u201cIntroduction: The African American Quest for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[13616,13617,13612,13614,13615],"class_list":["post-28723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-excerpts","tag-bruce-a-glasrud","tag-bruce-glasrud","tag-cary-d-wintz","tag-cary-de-cordova-wintz","tag-cary-wintz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723","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=28723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}