{"id":31714,"date":"2013-06-14T21:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31714"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:16:17","slug":"looking-back-at-lives-of-black-gis-in-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31714","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at lives of black GIs in Dorset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorsetecho.co.uk\/news\/10478468.Looking_back_at_lives_of_black_GIs_in_Dorset\/\" target=\"_blank\">Looking back at lives of black GIs in Dorset<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorsetecho.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Dorset Echo<\/a><br \/>\nWeymouth, Dorset, England<br \/>\n2013-06-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Tourgout<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A NEW exhibition is highlighting the stories of black soldiers in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorset\" target=\"_blank\">Dorset<\/a> during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It explores the lives of African American servicemen who headed to Dorset to train for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D-Day\" target=\"_blank\">D-Day<\/a> and is showing at Weymouth library until June 14.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in the week following the 69th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition\u2014entitled <em>1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset<\/em>\u2014was successfully launched last May at Walford Mill Crafts in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wimborne_Minster\" target=\"_blank\">Wimborne<\/a>. Louisa Adjoa Parker, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorchester,_Dorset\" target=\"_blank\">Dorchester<\/a> writer and poet of British and Ghanaian heritage, carried out the research into this part of local history, which has been little explored so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Louisa specialises in local black history and has written several books and exhibitions exploring the presence of black and minority ethnic people in Dorset. Louisa said: \u201cThis local history has not been explored in great detail until recently, and is arguably an important part of Dorset\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was important to gather the stories now, as the GIs\u2019 children and the local people who remember the GIs are getting older. \u201cThe African Americans\u2019 presence here left behind a lasting legacy\u2014cultural influences, memories and stories that have been passed down in families and become part of local folklore, and a number of their children as a result of relation-ships with local women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorsetecho.co.uk\/news\/10478468.Looking_back_at_lives_of_black_GIs_in_Dorset\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at lives of black GIs in Dorset Dorset Echo Weymouth, Dorset, England 2013-06-12 James Tourgout A NEW exhibition is highlighting the stories of black soldiers in Dorset during World War Two. It explores the lives of African American servicemen who headed to Dorset to train for D-Day and is showing at Weymouth library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,10],"tags":[14921,14920,81,14919,741,969],"class_list":["post-31714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-dorset","tag-dorset-echo","tag-england","tag-james-tourgout","tag-louisa-adjoa-parker","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714","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=31714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46392,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions\/46392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}