{"id":48250,"date":"2016-07-12T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48250"},"modified":"2016-07-12T23:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T23:55:30","slug":"a-citizen-of-fine-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48250","title":{"rendered":"A Citizen of Fine Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/open.mitchellhamline.edu\/facsch\/109\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A Citizen of Fine Spirit<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Mitchell Magazine<br \/>\nVolume 18, Issue 2, Fall 2000<br \/>\npages 2-6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/biographies\/person\/douglas-r-heidenreich\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Douglas R. Heidenreich<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/open.mitchellhamline.edu\/facsch\/109\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stmedia.stimg.co\/ows_145540262350783.jpg?w=263\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Minnesota Historical Society<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_T._Francis\" target=\"_blank\">William T. Francis<\/a> was (1869-1929), by most measures, the most successful of the early African American alumni of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Mitchell_College_of_Law\" target=\"_blank\">William Mitchell College of Law&#8217;s<\/a> predecessor law schools. Francis was a skilled lawyer, an adroit politician, a popular orator, a vigorous crusader for human and civil rights, and a respected U.S. diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/open.mitchellhamline.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1109&amp;context=facsch\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Citizen of Fine Spirit William Mitchell Magazine Volume 18, Issue 2, Fall 2000 pages 2-6 Douglas R. Heidenreich, Emeritus Professor of Law Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society William T. Francis was (1869-1929), by most measures, the most successful of the early African American alumni of William Mitchell College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,1467,8,20],"tags":[24478,24477,5703,24480,24476,24475,24479,24481],"class_list":["post-48250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-douglas-heidenreich","tag-douglas-r-heidenreich","tag-minnesota","tag-william-francis","tag-william-mitchell-college-of-law","tag-william-mitchell-magazine","tag-william-t-francis","tag-william-treyanne-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250","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=48250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48251,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250\/revisions\/48251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}