{"id":917825,"date":"2020-08-25T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=917825"},"modified":"2020-08-26T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:30:04","slug":"crawford-to-be-honored-by-lwv-smith-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=917825","title":{"rendered":"Crawford to be honored by LWV Smith County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/08\/LWV-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-917826\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The League of Women Voters of Tyler\/Smith County will commemorate Nancy Crawford, Executive Director of the Literacy Council of Tyler, with an annual Making Democracy Award. The local leader will be honored virtually on Friday at 6 p.m. during the League of Women Voters Annual Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Equality Day event, on their Facebook live platform. According to Tuesday&#8217;s press release, the award is an attempt to celebrate a community member that has been a leader and actively engaged in hands-on work to keep Smith County a strong and vibrant place to live.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year the event will celebrate 100 years of votes for women. Dee Pendleton, President, of Tyler Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta will present \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lifting as We Climb \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Why We Vote\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which sheds light on the pivotal role that African American Women played in the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The League of Women Voters is made up of volunteers who do hands-on work that creates lasting change in the community. To learn more about League of Women Voters,click the link <a href=\"http:\/\/lwvtyler.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/lwvtyler.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The League of Women Voters of Tyler\/Smith County will commemorate Nancy Crawford, Executive Director of the Literacy Council of Tyler, with an annual Making Democracy Award. The local leader will be honored virtually on Friday at 6 p.m. during the League of Women Voters Annual Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Equality Day event, on their Facebook live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=917825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crawford to be honored by LWV Smith County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 05:13:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917828,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917825\/revisions\/917828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}