{"id":249,"date":"2017-06-12T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:36:30","slug":"paying-tribute-to-a-remarkable-and-talented-aunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Paying Tribute to a Remarkable and Talented Aunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of Women\u2019s History Month 2017, I wrote this post about my great aunt, Beatrice Jackson Conway. Like her mother, \u201cMomma Addie&#8221; Jackson, my aunt was a leader with the Empire State Federation of Colored Women\u2019s Club, whose motto was \u201cLifting As We Climb.\u201d In 1917, Aunt Beatrice was an election poll watcher at a school in Harlem, NY for the Suffrage Party (see card below). That was the watershed election that eventually led to women winning the right to vote. An excellent writer, Aunt Beatrice had several letters published in the Tarrytown Daily News. She was also a soloist with the choir at Mother Zion A.M.E. Church in Harlem. Aunt Beatrice did all this and more by the age of 27, when she passed away due to complications from childbirth.<a href=\"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/beatrice-graphic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-250 aligncenter\" alt=\"beatrice graphic2\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/beatrice-graphic2-1024x791.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/beatrice-graphic2-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/beatrice-graphic2-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/beatrice-graphic2-388x300.jpg 388w, https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/beatrice-graphic2.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of Women\u2019s History Month 2017, I wrote this post about my great aunt, Beatrice Jackson Conway. Like her mother, \u201cMomma Addie&#8221; Jackson, my aunt was a leader with the Empire State Federation of Colored Women\u2019s Club, whose motto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/?p=249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,49,50,9,48],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-empire-state-federation-of-colored-womens-clubs","tag-mother-zion-a-m-e-church","tag-suffrage-party","tag-tarrytown-daily-news","tag-womens-suffrage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}