{"id":25917,"date":"2019-04-18T11:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25917"},"modified":"2019-04-18T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:41:54","slug":"adkins-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/adkins-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/afambook.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many prominent blacks, who lived in Santa Clara County, like&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. and World Figure Skating Champion Debi Thomas<\/li>\n<li>Ivie Anderson, the little girl from Gilroy, who became Duke Ellington&#8217;s famous singer, with such hits as, &#8220;It Don&#8217;t Mean a Thing if it Ain&#8217;t Got That Swing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Track Sensations Tommie Smith &amp; John Carlos<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Harry Edwards, whose influence on athletes and athletic programs is evident today<\/li>\n<li>San Jose Police Officer Les Brown, who later became renown as the nation&#8217;s &#8220;Drug Czar&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Francine Wright Bellson, a physicist from MIT and scientist at IBM, who married legendary drummer Louie Bellson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about these amazing people in Jan Batiste Adkins&#8217; latest book on African Americans. The historian\/teacher delves into the area&#8217;s history, providing numerous photos that help bring some of its most famous people to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The author shows that San Jose and Santa Clara County were a land of dreams and hopes for many,&#8221; says Craig MacDonald, who reviews this must-have book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/jan-adkins.html\">Read his review&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many prominent blacks, who lived in Santa Clara County, like&#8230; U.S. and World Figure Skating Champion Debi Thomas Ivie Anderson, the little girl from Gilroy, who became Duke Ellington&#8217;s famous singer, with such hits as, &#8220;It Don&#8217;t Mean a Thing if it Ain&#8217;t Got That Swing&#8221; Olympic Track Sensations Tommie Smith &amp; John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25919,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917\/revisions\/25919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}