{"id":474,"date":"2022-09-28T16:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=474"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:43:56","slug":"carter-dalton-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2017\/carter-dalton-lyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Dalton Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/clyon_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of <em>Sanctuaries of Segregation: The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/covers\/sanctuaries_lg.jpg\" alt=\"sanctuaries sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Carter Dalton Lyon&nbsp;chairs the History Department at St. Mary&#8217;s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and daughters. His Eudora Welty Prize-winning book,&nbsp;<em>Sanctuaries of Segregation:&nbsp;the Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign<\/em>, studies an important milestone in the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi\u2019s state capital, where a sustained campaign was mounted in 1963-64. He explores its history, the attempts at interracial dialogue it inspired, and the efforts to stop the campaign by the state and the Citizen&#8217;s Council, including forty arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eudora Welty Prize<br \/>\nauthor of Sanctuaries of Segregation: The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}