{"id":39169,"date":"2015-01-02T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39169"},"modified":"2015-01-02T02:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T02:54:33","slug":"woman-rides-in-rose-bowl-parade-almost-60-years-after-being-snubbed-because-of-her-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39169","title":{"rendered":"Woman rides in Rose Bowl parade almost 60 years after being snubbed because of her race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/she-the-people\/wp\/2015\/01\/01\/woman-to-ride-in-rose-bowl-parade-almost-60-years-after-being-snubbed-because-of-her-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Woman rides in Rose Bowl parade almost 60 years after being snubbed because of her race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dianareese\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Diana Reese<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Overland Park, Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Racism \u201cwas a fact of life,\u201d Joan Williams says about 1958, the year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=39143\" target=\"_blank\">she was supposed to ride on a city-sponsored float<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_Parade\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Parade<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pasadena,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Pasadena<\/a>. The 27-year-old account clerk had been named \u201cMiss Crown City,\u201d with all the attendant duties of ribbon-cuttings and appearances at official functions. The city even paid for Williams\u2019 portrait to be painted while she was wearing a tiara, gown and corsage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t anything I sought,\u201d Williams told me Wednesday. \u201cMy name was submitted unbeknownst to me by someone I worked with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was chosen by the judges to represent the city employees. For someone who\u2019d grown up watching the world-famous parade, it was \u201ca joyous occasion.\u201d But she was so light-skinned no one suspected her African-American heritage until a reporter met her dark-skinned husband and children. That was a game-changer in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=39153\" target=\"_blank\">As <em>Jet<\/em> magazine reported<\/a>, \u201cMrs. Williams did not ride on a float, because the City of Pasadena neglected to include one in its own parade. Too many others were already entered, explained an official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce they learned I was African American, I wasn\u2019t the person they wanted representing the city,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI sure didn\u2019t dwell on it because I had a life to live. That was their problem, not my problem.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/she-the-people\/wp\/2015\/01\/01\/woman-to-ride-in-rose-bowl-parade-almost-60-years-after-being-snubbed-because-of-her-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman rides in Rose Bowl parade almost 60 years after being snubbed because of her race The Washington Post 2015-01-01 Diana Reese Overland Park, Kansas Racism \u201cwas a fact of life,\u201d Joan Williams says about 1958, the year she was supposed to ride on a city-sponsored float in the Rose Parade of Pasadena. The 27-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20,25],"tags":[455,18947,18903,18904,18901,18902,18899,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-39169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-california","tag-diana-reese","tag-joan-r-williams","tag-joan-roberta-williams","tag-joan-williams","tag-pasadena","tag-rose-parade","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39169","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=39169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}