{"id":58849,"date":"2019-09-08T23:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58849"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:59:23","slug":"symbol-of-racial-reconciliation-pasadenan-joan-williams-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58849","title":{"rendered":"Symbol of Racial Reconciliation, Pasadenan Joan Williams Dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"

Symbol of Racial Reconciliation, Pasadenan Joan Williams Dies at 86<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Pasadena Now<\/a>
\nPasadena, California
\n2019-03-01<\/p>\n

Stephen Siciliano<\/strong><\/a>, Managing Editor
\nPhotography courtesy Robert \u201cChip\u201d Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Joan Williams, who did not leave Pasadena<\/a> after being stripped of her 1958 \u201cMiss Crown City\u201d<\/a> title but stayed and watched her hometown change with time has died, according to her son Robert \u201cChip\u201d Williams.<\/p>\n

Williams passed away on Feb. 20 in Pasadena, at the age of 86, enough time to be denied a rightful ride in the Rose Parade<\/a> because of her race and decades later to see that wrong righted.<\/p>\n

When officials discovered Williams was a light-complexioned African American, the float she was to ride was canceled. Her story finally publicized, Williams got her trip down Colorado Boulevard<\/a> in the 2015 Rose Parade<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Williams passed away on Feb. 20 in Pasadena, at the age of 86, enough time to be denied a rightful ride in the Rose Parade because of her race and decades later to see that wrong righted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20,25],"tags":[455,18903,18904,18901,18902,30235,30233,18899,30234],"class_list":["post-58849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-california","tag-joan-r-williams","tag-joan-roberta-williams","tag-joan-williams","tag-pasadena","tag-pasadena-now","tag-robert-chip-williams","tag-rose-parade","tag-stephen-siciliano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58849","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=58849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61809,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58849\/revisions\/61809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}