{"id":47708,"date":"2016-06-17T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47708"},"modified":"2016-06-19T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T18:31:22","slug":"conversations-victoria-bynum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47708","title":{"rendered":"Conversations: Victoria Bynum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.mpbonline.org\/video\/2365769098\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Conversations: Victoria Bynum<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpbonline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi Public Broadcasting<\/a><br \/>\nAired: 2016-06-16<br \/>\nLength: 00:26:46<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365769098\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHistorian and author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vikki_bynum\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Bynum<\/a> talks about her book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3718\" target=\"_blank\">The Free State of Jones: Mississippi&#8217;s Longest War<\/a>.&#8221; First published in 2003, the book tells the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jones_County%2C_Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Jones County<\/a> residents who opposed secession from the Union during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">civil war<\/a>. The true story is receiving a resurgence in interest now that it has been made into a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_State_of_Jones_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">major motion picture<\/a> starring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_McConaughey\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversations: Victoria Bynum Mississippi Public Broadcasting Aired: 2016-06-16 Length: 00:26:46 Historian and author Victoria Bynum talks about her book, &#8220;The Free State of Jones: Mississippi&#8217;s Longest War.&#8221; First published in 2003, the book tells the story of Jones County residents who opposed secession from the Union during the civil war. The true story is receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13743,8,1459,6940,20,842],"tags":[3883,24157,24158,1457,1456,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-47708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-slavery","category-usa","category-videos","tag-jones-county","tag-mississippi-public-broadcasting","tag-mpb","tag-newt-knight","tag-newton-knight","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708","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=47708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47710,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708\/revisions\/47710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}