{"id":256,"date":"2025-03-26T23:50:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:54","slug":"connecting-with-the-living-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/connecting-with-the-living-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting with the Living Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"256\" class=\"elementor elementor-256\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7975a280 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7975a280\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34a6469b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34a6469b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It was a red-letter day for Samuel Colunga\u2019s 8th grade class. The teenage historians left the dry, dusty archives of the Internet to focus on a living source of Madera\u2019s African-American past. They spent one and a half hours interviewing Dr. Albert Wilburn as part of their attempt to gather material for a book they were writing: \u201cMadera\u2019s Journey from Jim Crow to Civil Rights; Stories of Personal Courage\u201d<\/p><p>Standing in front of the class, Wilburn engaged the students, who sat at their desks behind plastic shields and peppered the former Stanford University football star with questions. At the back of the room, several adults (all with masks) joined the discussion.<\/p><p>The students had clearly done their homework; their questions showed it. By the same token, Dr. Wilburn was prepared, and his responses gave the students all they needed to write a biographical sketch of his life that would be placed beside other stories in the book that some have nicknamed, \u201cThe Overcomers.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a red-letter day for Samuel Colunga\u2019s 8th grade class. The teenage historians left the dry, dusty archives of the Internet to focus on a living source of Madera\u2019s African-American past. They spent one and a half hours interviewing Dr. Albert Wilburn as part of their attempt to gather material for a book they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}