{"id":8487,"date":"2012-03-09T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:23:41","slug":"annie-henry-book-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/09\/annie-henry-book-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Annie B. Henry to hold March 15 book signing at AIRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn. (March 9, 2012)<\/strong> &mdash; Dr. Annie B. Henry, professor emerita of education at Bemidji State University, will host a book signing for her memoirs, &ldquo;The Girl From Jacksonville Who Dared to Dream, Hope and Believe!&rdquo; on Thursday, March 15.<\/p>\n<p>The signing will be held from 4-6 p.m. at the Gathering Place of the American Indian Resource Center on the Bemidji State campus.<\/p>\n<p>Henry retired from the BSU faculty in 2007 after 20 years as a professor of professional education.<\/p>\n<p>Henry was born to sharecropper parents in a legally segregated America. She was not allowed to attend kindergarten; her parents could not take her to the hospital or to the emergency room; she could not ride a bus to school; and the Jacksonville Public Library was off limits to her.<\/p>\n<p>She eventually completed college, earning an undergraduate degree from Edward Waters College, and a master&rsquo;s degree from Florida A&amp;M University. After teaching briefly in Florida and for 15 years in the Virgin Islands, she completed a doctorate at Florida State University &mdash; where she previously had been denied access to a course because of her race. She became the first member of her family to earn a Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>Through determination, possibilities and perseverance, Henry became &ldquo;the girl from Jacksonville who dared to dream, hope and believe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Henry created BSU&rsquo;s first endowed scholarships for African-Americans in education. She also established a life estate gift through the BSU Foundation, which will come from the sale of her home at some future date and be used to fund more scholarships. A room in the Education-Arts Building on the BSU campus is named in Henry&rsquo;s honor.<\/p>\n<p>Henry&rsquo;s book will be available for purchase at the signing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. (March 9, 2012) &mdash; Dr. Annie B. Henry, professor emerita of education at Bemidji State University, will host a book signing for her memoirs, &ldquo;The Girl From Jacksonville Who Dared to Dream, Hope and Believe!&rdquo; on Thursday, March 15. The signing will be held from 4-6 p.m. at the Gathering Place of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43775,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/43775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}