{"id":457,"date":"2012-02-17T04:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T09:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=457"},"modified":"2012-06-24T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T18:56:52","slug":"same-name-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Same name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"ccoop1\">Charles Henry &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Cooper (September 29, 1926 \u2013 February 5, 1984)<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"ccoop1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccoop11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-462\" title=\"ccoop1\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccoop11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccoop11.png 630w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccoop11-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"ccoop2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"ccoop2\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccoop2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccoop2.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccoop2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chuck Cooper was the first African American player to be drafted by an NBA team (Boston Celtics), in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper&#8217;s experience was laced with racial prejudice and, at times, rampant segregation on road trips at restaurants and hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper later earned a Masters in Social Work degree from the University of Minnesota, served on Pittsburgh\u2019s school board, and became the city\u2019s first African American department head as director of parks and recreation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Henry &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Cooper (September 29, 1926 \u2013 February 5, 1984) Chuck Cooper was the first African American player to be drafted by an NBA team (Boston Celtics), in 1950. Cooper&#8217;s experience was laced with racial prejudice and, at times, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429],"tags":[194,7,193,2289,6,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}