{"id":1419,"date":"2010-12-15T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2011-03-16T22:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:51:50","slug":"1899-presley-holliday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/15\/1899-presley-holliday\/","title":{"rendered":"1899 (Arguing for Justice) Presly Holliday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presly Holliday, 1902<\/p><\/div>\n

Life & Family<\/strong>
\nSgt. Presley (also Pressley or Presly) Holliday, USA
\n(1873-1954)
\nSteelton High School (Class of 1890), Married Estelle M. Hill
\nBuried in Midland Cemetery<\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nKey primary sources include the following letters:<\/p>\n

Presley Holliday\u2019s letter<\/a> to the editor of the New York Age<\/em>, April 22, 1899 (response to Theodore Roosevelt)<\/p>\n

Presly Holliday to George Myers June 8, 1901<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cReply To Mr. Lainer<\/a>,\u201d Washington (DC) Post<\/em>, May 1, 1935, p. 8: 4-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Utterback Case<\/a>,\u201d Washington (DC) Post<\/em>, May 7, 1935, p. 8: 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre Ethiopians Negroes<\/a>?,\u201d Washington (DC) Post<\/em>, September 11, 1935, p. 6: 4-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cThinks Fighting Men Should Be Upheld In Fight Against Unfairness<\/a>,\u201d Pittsburg (PA) Courier<\/em>, June 12, 1943, p. 22: 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cCites Faults of a Mixed Army<\/a>,\u201d Pittsburg (PA) Courier<\/em>, September 27, 1947, p. 6: 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cRacial Mixtures<\/a>,\u201d Washington (DC) Post<\/em> , December 28, 1949, p. 10: 4-5.<\/p>\n

Holliday to President Harry Truman, September 4, 1945<\/a><\/p>\n

While none of Holliday’s letters from the Eisenhower Administration appear to be online, see this finding aid<\/a> and use the CTRL + F to search “0126 124-A-1” and find the section that lists Holliday as a “Principal Correspondents.”<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nPresly Holliday wrote letters to several United States Presidents. While in Washington DC you can visit the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life & Family Sgt. Presley (also Pressley or Presly) Holliday, USA (1873-1954) Steelton High School (Class of 1890), Married Estelle M. Hill Buried in Midland Cemetery Sources Key primary sources include the following letters: Presley Holliday\u2019s letter to the editor of the New York Age, April 22, 1899 (response to Theodore Roosevelt) Presly Holliday to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3975],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-memory-meaning-1865-2015","tag-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}