{"id":61705,"date":"2021-10-02T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61705"},"modified":"2021-10-03T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T00:31:27","slug":"ralston-elreta-melton-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61705","title":{"rendered":"Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpedia.org\/ralston-elreta-melton-alexander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpedia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCPedia<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/statelibrary.ncdcr.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Library of North Carolina<\/a><br \/>Raleigh, North Carolina<br \/>2013<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/virginialsummey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia L. Summey<\/a><\/strong>, Historian, Author, and Faculty Fellow<br \/><em>Lloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpedia.org\/ralston-elreta-melton-alexander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncpedia.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logos\/Cardinal_abstract-logo_2017.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elreta_Melton_Alexander-Ralston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elreta Melton Alexander<\/a> was a pioneering African-American attorney from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greensboro,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greensboro, North Carolina<\/a>. Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smithfield,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smithfield, North Carolina<\/a>, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher, and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. Coming of age during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Crow<\/a> period of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South<\/a>, she was raised by her educated, middle-class parents to be a leader in the community. The descendant of two white grandparents, her bi-racialism formed her early awareness of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorism<\/a> within the African-American community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpedia.org\/ralston-elreta-melton-alexander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander NCPediaState Library of North CarolinaRaleigh, North Carolina2013 Virginia L. Summey, Historian, Author, and Faculty FellowLloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Elreta Melton Alexander was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,1467,8,20,25],"tags":[32041,32040,32042,879,32043,32044,32045],"class_list":["post-61705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-elreta-melton-alexander","tag-elreta-melton-alexander-ralston","tag-ncpedia","tag-north-carolina","tag-state-library-of-north-carolina","tag-virginia-l-summey","tag-virginia-summey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61705","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=61705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61712,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61705\/revisions\/61712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}