{"id":34233,"date":"2013-10-11T01:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T01:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34233"},"modified":"2016-03-23T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:15:00","slug":"black-seminoles-and-the-underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34233","title":{"rendered":"Black Seminoles and The Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colapublib.org\/calendar\/events\/index.php?d=2013-11-23&amp;m=1\" target=\"_blank\">Black Seminoles and The Underground Railroad<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colapublib.org\/libs\/bilbrew\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">AC Bilbrew Library<\/a><br \/>\n150 E. El Segundo Blvd.<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California 90061<br \/>\n310-538-3350<br \/>\nSaturday, 2013-11-23, 14:30 PST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil Wilkes Fixico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colapublib.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colapublib.org\/images\/logosmall.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by exploring the history of free Blacks and fugitive slaves who escaped to Florida between the 1600s and 1800s, forging alliances with the Seminole Nation and establishing their own autonomous communities and unique culture.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Wilkes \u201cPompey\u201d Fixico is a Seminole Maroon descendant , member of the L.A. chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers and Dept. of Interior\/National Park Service\/ National Underground Railroad\/ Network to Freedom Private-Sector Partner (Semiroon Historical Society). He is also the honorary spokesman for John Horse Band of the Texas Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colapublib.org\/calendar\/events\/index.php?d=2013-11-23&amp;m=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Seminoles and The Underground Railroad AC Bilbrew Library 150 E. El Segundo Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90061 310-538-3350 Saturday, 2013-11-23, 14:30 PST (Local Time) Phil Wilkes Fixico Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by exploring the history of free Blacks and fugitive slaves who escaped to Florida between the 1600s and 1800s, forging alliances with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13,8,3015,6940,20],"tags":[16087,5269],"class_list":["post-34233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-ac-bilbrew-library","tag-phil-wilkes-fixico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233","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=34233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46180,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233\/revisions\/46180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}