{"id":2284,"date":"2018-07-11T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T10:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2018-10-25T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:28:21","slug":"later-life-and-legacy-brown-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/later-life-and-legacy-brown-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Later Life and Legacy (Brown-5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Brown continued advocating for equal rights throughout his life. He led a group of 48 ministers in a protest at the Arkansas State Capitol in 1965. They were there to petition Governor Faubus to re-open the Capitol cafeteria after he closed it following management\u2019s refusal to serve African-Americans. He continued to serve as trustee of the American Church Institute for Negroes, an organization which coordinated church-affiliated schools for African-Americans in the South. Bishop Brown also continued to serve as bishop of the diocese of Arkansas until 1970. After 1970, he retired and continued to advocate for equality and wrote several articles for the spiritual journal <em>The Southern Churchman<\/em>. Brown died on February 5, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image:\u00a0Group photograph of Arkansas clergy. Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\"><div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p>Bishop Brown continued advocating for equal rights throughout his life. He led a group of 48 ministers in a protest at the Arkansas State Capitol in 1965. They were there to petition Governor Faubus to re-open the Capitol cafeteria after&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/later-life-and-legacy-brown-5\/\" class=\"more-link\"><br \/>\n\t\tContinue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Later Life and Legacy (Brown-5)&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/later-life-and-legacy-brown-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">\n\t\tContinue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Later Life and Legacy (Brown-5)&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[198,205],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bishop-robert-r-brown","tag-american-church-institute-for-negroes","tag-governor-orval-faubus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}