{"id":39122,"date":"2014-12-29T03:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39122"},"modified":"2014-12-30T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:02:22","slug":"woman-turned-away-from-1958-rose-parade-because-of-race-to-ride-in-2015-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39122","title":{"rendered":"Woman turned away from 1958 Rose Parade because of race to ride in 2015 parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/452746\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Woman turned away from 1958 Rose Parade because of race to ride in 2015 parade<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\" target=\"_blank\">Eyewitness News, KABC 7<\/a><br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<br \/>\n2014-12-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC7Leanne\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Leanne Suter<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n<p>PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A woman who was denied the honor of riding in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_Parade\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Parade<\/a> in 1958 because of her race will finally get her chance in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Williams, 83, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6rcDAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PA1&amp;pg=PA62#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">was named Miss Crown City in 1958<\/a>, representing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pasadena,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Pasadena<\/a>. It was an honor she received after being nominated by her coworkers at city hall.<\/p>\n<p>However, she was denied the honor after city officials discovered she is African American. She said it was devastating to be told she wasn&#8217;t worthy because of her race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=452746\" width=\"476\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>A woman who was denied the honor of riding in the Rose Parade in 1958 because of her race will finally get her chance in 2015.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/452746\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman turned away from 1958 Rose Parade because of race to ride in 2015 parade Eyewitness News, KABC 7 Los Angeles, California 2014-12-27 Leanne Suter, Reporter PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A woman who was denied the honor of riding in the Rose Parade in 1958 because of her race will finally get her chance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20,842,25],"tags":[455,18903,18904,18901,18912,18911,18913,18902,18899],"class_list":["post-39122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-california","tag-joan-r-williams","tag-joan-roberta-williams","tag-joan-williams","tag-kabc","tag-kabc-7","tag-leanne-suter","tag-pasadena","tag-rose-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122","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=39122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}