{"id":688,"date":"2010-12-07T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T00:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=688"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:12:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:12:18","slug":"william-howard-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/07\/william-howard-day\/","title":{"rendered":"1859 (Arguing for Justice) William Howard Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Howard Day (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nA short profile of Day starts on page 366 of G. F. Richings’ Evidences of Progress among Colored People<\/a><\/em> (1902). In November 1865 Day delivered a speech at Harrisburg’s Grand Review, which was organized to honor African Americans who served in the Civil War. You can read more about this event in an excerpt from Ceremonies at the Reception of Welcome to the Colored Soldiers of Pennsylvania<\/a> (1865).<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nYou can find a historical marker<\/a> about the November 1865 USCT Grand Review that Day helped organize in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A historical marker<\/a> about Day is also located in Steelton, Pennsylvania at the intersection of Lincoln Street and Carlisle Street. While the William Howard Day Cemetery is also located in Steelton, Day was buried at Lincoln Cemetery<\/a> in Penbrook, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nA photograph is available from Day’s profile<\/a> on House Divided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources A short profile of Day starts on page 366 of G. F. Richings’ Evidences of Progress among Colored People (1902). In November 1865 Day delivered a speech at Harrisburg’s Grand Review, which was organized to honor African Americans who served in the Civil War. You can read more about this event in an excerpt […]<\/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":[8648,3973],"tags":[8663],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-grave-crisis-1801-1861","tag-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}