{"id":14119,"date":"2022-04-14T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=14119"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:33:02","slug":"the-late-prof-michael-e-birdwell-named-2022-outstanding-diversity-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2022\/people\/the-late-prof-michael-e-birdwell-named-2022-outstanding-diversity-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Late Prof. Michael E. Birdwell Named 2022 Outstanding Diversity Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech\u2019s Commission on the Status of Blacks recognized Professor Michael E. Birdwell, as the 2022 Outstanding Diversity Advocate for his broad contributions to researching, preserving and chronicling African American history. Prof. Birdwell was featured in the PBS documentary, \u201cEverybody\u2019s Welcome at John\u2019s Place,\u201d which displayed his oral history skills, story-telling prowess and broad knowledge about the historically-black West End area of Cookeville, in which John\u2019s Place served an integrated clientele prior to desegregation. Along with local residents, Prof. Birdwell worked to get John\u2019s Place listed on the National Historic Register and, at the time of his death, was working to register the entire neighborhood. \u00a0Speaking about his work, one West Ender explained:\u00a0 \u201cThese families were not just subjects or topics of discussion for him. He\u00a0<em>knew<\/em>\u00a0these families individually and felt\u2026each story was important and worthy of being studied and discussed.\u201d His legacy stands. (Photo: A. Banton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech\u2019s Commission on the Status of Blacks recognized Professor Michael E. Birdwell, as the 2022 Outstanding Diversity Advocate for his broad contributions to researching, preserving and chronicling African American history. Prof. Birdwell was featured in the PBS documentary, \u201cEverybody\u2019s Welcome at John\u2019s Place,\u201d which displayed his oral history skills, story-telling prowess and broad knowledge about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-14119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/04\/2022-04-13_6256f5317aa31_BirdwellCeremonyImage.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions\/14126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}