{"id":4386,"date":"2022-12-05T05:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2022-12-03T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:53:24","slug":"royce-moneys-1999-apology-at-southwestern-christian-college-now-available-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2022\/12\/05\/royce-moneys-1999-apology-at-southwestern-christian-college-now-available-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Royce Money&#8217;s 1999 apology at Southwestern Christian College now available on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November 1999 Dr. Royce Money, President of Abilene Christian University, made a formal apology on behalf of Abilene Christian University, its board, administration, faculty and staff, to an assembly at the 50th anniversary celebration of Southwestern Christian College, Terrell, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Money was introduced by Southwestern President Dr. Jack Evans, whose remarks begin at the 1:17:15 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Money confessed that ACU acted in prejudiced and discriminatory ways toward African-Americans, particularly by denying their admission for almost the first full sixty years of the school&#8217;s existence.\u00a0 The full video can be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.acu.edu\/historical_audio_video\/101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/digitalcommons.acu.edu\/historical_audio_video\/101\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He repeated his statement at the annual Bible lectureship at ACU in February, 2000. The audio recording of that speech is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.acu.edu\/historical_audio_video\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/digitalcommons.acu.edu\/historical_audio_video\/8<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 1999 Dr. Royce Money, President of Abilene Christian University, made a formal apology on behalf of Abilene Christian University, its board, administration, faculty and staff, to an assembly at the 50th anniversary celebration of Southwestern Christian College, Terrell, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2022\/12\/05\/royce-moneys-1999-apology-at-southwestern-christian-college-now-available-on-video\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83130,14,137579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acu-history","category-news","category-resource-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4fxGI-18K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}