{"id":1500,"date":"2013-03-22T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2013-03-22T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:32:50","slug":"remembering-chinua-achebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/03\/22\/remembering-chinua-achebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Chinua Achebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinua Achebe (1930\u20132013) never came to Iowa City, so our connection with him in our collection is slight. However, since he recently died and given the importance of his work, I wanted to highlight a few items in our digital collections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/aawiowa\/id\/756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3228 \" alt=\"Members_of_Black_Writers_panel_chatting_Countee_Cullen_Branch_of_New_York_Public_Library_New_York_NY_May_1963\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/03\/Members_of_Black_Writers_panel_chatting_Countee_Cullen_Branch_of_New_York_Public_Library_New_York_NY_May_1963-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured are: (from left) Louis Lomax, Bill Kelley, Esther Walls, John Killens, Chinua Achebe, Leroi Jones<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Esther Walls papers include 3 pictures of him at the Countee Cullen Branch of the New York Public Library in May, 1963. He was part of a black writers panel, moderated by Esther Walls. Other panelists were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Lomax\" >Louis Lomax<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Melvin_Kelley\" >Bill Kelley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Oliver_Killens\" >John Killens<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leroi_Jones\" >Leroi Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/aawiowa\/id\/748\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3231 \" alt=\"Role_of_the_Black_Writer\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/03\/Role_of_the_Black_Writer-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esther Walls moderating a panel of black writers. Pictured are: (from left) Bill Kelley, Chinua Achebe, Louis Lomax, Esther Walls, Leroi Jones (obscured), John Killens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We of course also have many <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/D1RH2BHBX4MCYS7PMSFYEFA2EF7PIYI55BQEMSK9UJANENNVDP-06980?func=find-acc&amp;acc_sequence=001850746\" >books written by him<\/a>; reading his works is the best way to remember his legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinua Achebe (1930&ndash;2013) never came to Iowa City, so our connection with him in our collection is slight. However, since he recently died and given the importance of his work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}