{"id":955,"date":"2014-06-28T01:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/?p=955"},"modified":"2019-09-10T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:53:05","slug":"the-walter-tull-story-a-hero-who-might-have-been-forgotten-by-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/the-walter-tull-story-a-hero-who-might-have-been-forgotten-by-history\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WALTER TULL STORY  &#8211; a hero who might have been forgotten by history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s about Walter Tull, the first black footballer to be signed by Spurs Football Team and the first black offer in the British Army in WW1. He suffered a horrendous amount of racial abuse and he was dropped by Spurs. \u00a0An injustice was also done when Tull was turned down for the Military Cross on account of his race.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptfFThLt87Q\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They are performing the play at<br \/>\nBernie Grant Arts\u00a0Centre\u00a0Friday 18th\u00a0July at 7.30pm<br \/>\nBruce Grove Youth\u00a0CentreFriday\u00a025th\u00a0July at 7.00pm<br \/>\nThe Hub Saturday 26th\u00a0July at 2pm<br \/>\nCatholic Worker\u00a0Guidesppe\u00a0Conlon\u00a0Centre\u00a0Saturday 26th\u00a0July at 7pm<br \/>\nSee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tottenhamtheatre.co.uk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tottenhamtheatre.co.uk\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s about Walter Tull, the first black footballer to be signed by Spurs Football Team and the first black offer in the British Army in WW1. He suffered a horrendous amount of racial abuse and he was dropped by Spurs. \u00a0An injustice was also done when Tull was turned down for the Military Cross on account of his race.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptfFThLt87Q\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They are performing the play at<br \/>\nBernie Grant Arts\u00a0Centre\u00a0Friday 18th\u00a0July at 7.30pm<br \/>\nBruce Grove Youth\u00a0CentreFriday\u00a025th\u00a0July at 7.00pm<br \/>\nThe Hub Saturday 26th\u00a0July at 2pm<br \/>\nCatholic Worker\u00a0Guidesppe\u00a0Conlon\u00a0Centre\u00a0Saturday 26th\u00a0July at 7pm<br \/>\nSee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tottenhamtheatre.co.uk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tottenhamtheatre.co.uk\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}