{"id":4707,"date":"2025-05-14T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/?page_id=4707"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:59:13","slug":"alabama","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/delegates-and-attendees\/alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>James T. Rapier<\/strong> was the delegate for Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Read James T. Rapier&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/delegates-and-attendees\/james-t-rapier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biography<\/a> available in the left tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47df-f42d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg\" alt=\"B&amp;W portraits of men, including James Rapier in the top right\" class=\"wp-image-3995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47df-f42d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg 493w, https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47df-f42d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Rapier was one of three Black Republican congressmen from Alabama during Reconstruction (top right). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. &#8220;H.R. Revels; James T. Rapier; B. K. Bruce; J. H. Rainey; John R. Lynch.&#8221; New York Public Library Digital Collections. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Written by&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sqdevera.com\">Samantha de Vera<\/a>, University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edited by<\/strong>&nbsp;P. Gabrielle Foreman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Acknowledgements:&nbsp;<\/strong>Samantha de Vera and Michelle Byrnes for further edits, visualization contributions, and technical assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James T. Rapier was the delegate for Alabama. Read James T. Rapier&#8217;s biography available in the left tab. Credits Written by&nbsp;Samantha de Vera, University of California, San Diego. Edited by&nbsp;P. Gabrielle Foreman. Acknowledgements:&nbsp;Samantha de Vera and Michelle Byrnes for further edits, visualization contributions, and technical assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4604,"parent":4625,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4707","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4707\/revisions\/4769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}