{"id":38429,"date":"2014-11-20T00:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T00:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38429"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:30:04","slug":"go-stand-upon-the-rock-with-samuel-michael-lemon-ed-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38429","title":{"rendered":"Go Stand Upon The Rock with Samuel Michael Lemon, Ed.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/bernicebennett\/2014\/11\/21\/go-stand-upon-the-rock-with-samuel-michael-lemon-edd\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Go Stand Upon The Rock with Samuel Michael Lemon, Ed.D.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/bernicebennett\" target=\"_blank\">Research at the National Archives and Beyond<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlogTalk Radio<\/a><br \/>\nThursday, 2014-11-20, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-21, 02:00Z)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geniebroots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bernice Bennett<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36504\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Go Stand Upon the Rock<\/em><\/a> (2014) is a deeply moving <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>-era novel based on stories handed down by <a href=\"mailto:lemons@neumann.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Lemon&#8217;s<\/a> grandmother about the lives of her grandparents who were once runaway slaves from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a>. It is a tale of unsettling plantation life, courageous women, dramatic Civil War battles, heroes, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hoodoo\" target=\"_blank\">hoodoo<\/a>, and the indomitable strength of the human spirit. The book is supported by historical and genealogical research, photographs, and documents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=13080\" target=\"_blank\">from his doctoral dissertation<\/a>. This is a compelling and emotionally engaging history that comes alive through the lives of real people and events.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sam Lemon grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Media,_Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\">Media, Pennsylvania<\/a>, where his maternal great-great grandparents arrived as runaway slaves during the Civil War. Given refuge and support by local <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quakers\" target=\"_blank\">Quakers<\/a>, his ancestors prospered and became prominent members of the community. He is currently an assistant professor and the director of a graduate program at Neumann University in Pennsylvania, and formerly worked in the fields of social services, education, and public television at WHYY in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/bernicebennett\/2014\/11\/21\/go-stand-upon-the-rock-with-samuel-michael-lemon-edd\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Stand Upon The Rock with Samuel Michael Lemon, Ed.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-20, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-21, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Go Stand Upon the Rock (2014) is a deeply moving Civil War-era novel based on stories handed down by Sam Lemon&#8217;s grandmother about the lives of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,13,8,6940,20],"tags":[12642,7140,14688,18482,5903,5902,5905],"class_list":["post-38429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-bernice-bennett","tag-blogtalk-radio","tag-research-at-the-national-archives-and-beyond","tag-sam-lemon","tag-samuel-lemon","tag-samuel-m-lemon","tag-samuel-michael-lemon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429","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=38429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}