{"id":1705,"date":"2017-02-27T19:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:41:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:41:51","slug":"records-document-a-century-of-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Records document a century of segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1706\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1706\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/103-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/103-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/103-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/103-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/103-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Nicholson and her grandson, Adonis Taylor, 10, of Ashburn, look at some of the records displayed at the open house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An open house at the Loudoun County Courthouse on Feb. 11 highlighted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/display-of-court-records-highlights-a-century-of-segregation-in-loudoun-county\/2017\/02\/24\/ef0ba0b0-f9d1-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.1fc234f24fe9&amp;wpisrc=nl_va&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\">the century of segregation in Virginia<\/a> that followed the Civil War and the abolishing of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>The Clerk of the Circuit Court\u2019s Office displayed records that document the separate and unequal treatment of African Americans in the county during that time. Documents reveal how segregation pervaded all areas of life, including the education, public services and land transactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/display-of-court-records-highlights-a-century-of-segregation-in-loudoun-county\/2017\/02\/24\/ef0ba0b0-f9d1-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.1fc234f24fe9&amp;wpisrc=nl_va&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open house at the Loudoun County Courthouse on Feb. 11 highlighted the century of segregation in Virginia that followed the Civil War and the abolishing of slavery. The Clerk of the Circuit Court\u2019s Office displayed records that document the separate and unequal treatment of African Americans in the county during that time. Documents reveal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Records document a century of segregation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,23,21,10,14,3,49,6],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-ashburn","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-courts","tag-history","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-school-board","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}