{"id":292,"date":"2017-10-20T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/?p=292"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:42:13","slug":"margaret-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2017\/10\/20\/margaret-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2017\/10\/Margaret_Simmons_III.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-293\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2017\/10\/Margaret_Simmons_III-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2017\/10\/Margaret_Simmons_III-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2017\/10\/Margaret_Simmons_III-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2017\/10\/Margaret_Simmons_III-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2017\/10\/Margaret_Simmons_III-300x449.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Simmons, 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Margaret Simmons<\/strong> was the first African American to earn a degree from <strong>Old Dominion University (ODU)<\/strong>. A student in the Master of English program at Old Dominion, Simmons received her degree in 1966 among the first graduates to received their master&#8217;s degrees. After graduation, Simmons received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and was a professor of English at Hampton University until her death in 2002.<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.odu.edu\/archon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=85\">Old Dominion University Photographic and Multimedia Collection<\/a>,\u00a0Special Collections and University Archives, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Bookman, Steven and Jessica Ritchie. Old Dominion University: A Campus History Series.\u00a0 Arcadia Publishing. Charleston, South Carolina, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Simmons was the first African American to earn a degree from Old Dominion University (ODU). A student in the Master of English program at Old Dominion, Simmons received her degree in 1966 among the first graduates to received their master&#8217;s degrees. After graduation, Simmons received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and was&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2017\/10\/20\/margaret-simmons\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[75,35,76,418,14,18,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}