{"id":62099,"date":"2021-11-04T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62099"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:46:31","slug":"interview-with-virginia-summey-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62099","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Virginia Summey, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mt7n_bfAtoM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Interview with Virginia Summey, Part 1<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCM-jYKFxM03QrkSjvf5MhwA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merrittocracy: History to the People<\/a><br \/>\n2019-08-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kerileighmerritt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keri Leigh Merritt<\/a><\/strong>, Host<br \/>\n<em>Atlanta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mt7n_bfAtoM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the first part of my interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/virginialsummey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ginny Summey<\/a>, an independent scholar, we talk about her forthcoming book on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elreta_Melton_Alexander-Ralston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elreta Melton Alexander<\/a>, one of the first Black women to become a lawyer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina&#8217;s<\/a> first Black woman district court judge. We also discuss the challenges and benefits of being independent scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Part 2 of the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LVraxjLljsQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Virginia Summey, Part 1 Merrittocracy: History to the People 2019-08-22 Keri Leigh Merritt, Host Atlanta, Georgia In the first part of my interview with Ginny Summey, an independent scholar, we talk about her forthcoming book on Elreta Melton Alexander, one of the first Black women to become a lawyer in the US, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13743,1467,8,20,842,25],"tags":[32041,32040,32287,29684,32286,32285,32044,32045],"class_list":["post-62099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-elreta-melton-alexander","tag-elreta-melton-alexander-ralston","tag-ginny-summey","tag-keri-leigh-merritt","tag-merrittocracy","tag-merrittocracy-history-to-the-people","tag-virginia-l-summey","tag-virginia-summey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62099","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=62099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62101,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62099\/revisions\/62101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}