{"id":5332,"date":"2011-02-26T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2011-02-26T01:42:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T07:42:25","slug":"apsu-to-present-one-woman-play-warriors-dont-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/26\/apsu-to-present-one-woman-play-warriors-dont-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU to present one-woman play, &#8216;Warriors Don&#8217;t Cry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47306\" title=\"Austin Peay State University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apsu-logo-200x123.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University\" width=\"180\" height=\"111\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Austin Peay State University will present a play next week about the experiences of one woman during desegregation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The one-woman play, \u201cWarriors Don\u2019t Cry,\u201d will be performed at 7:00pm, Tuesday, March 1st in Clement Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The play depicts the experiences of Melba Pattilo Beals, one of the \u201cLittle Rock Nine,\u201d and the civil rights battle that erupted to integrate schools in Little Rock, AR.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The events set Beals\u2019 life on a different course. The play includes her experiences as she faced angry, rampant mobs, and shows how combat-ready soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) were sent to protect her life.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by the Tennessee Women\u2019s Theater Project, the performance is sponsored by the APSU Student Affairs Programs, Women\u2019s 7 Gender Studies, the Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center and the African American Studies program.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Student Affairs, 931-221-7341.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Austin Peay State University will present a play next week about the experiences of one woman during desegregation efforts. The one-woman play, \u201cWarriors Don\u2019t Cry,\u201d will be performed at 7:00pm, Tuesday, March 1st in Clement Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The play depicts the experiences of Melba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1463,1478,23,6145,6669,6671,262,269,3677,6667,6668,6666,6670],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-1o0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}