{"id":88,"date":"2015-02-10T01:38:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gildedageincolor.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-02-17T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T01:51:11","slug":"lindsay-r-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay R. Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pt_pohix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Walker Garage\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pt_pohix-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pt_pohix.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walker Garage Building &#8211; Bridge St.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lindsay R. Walker came to Newport from Culpepper County Virginia in 1860 and he would recruit other African American families to come to Newport after the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>He established a successful transportation business at 9-11 Bridge Street that would remain in the Walker family for many generations.<\/p>\n<p>Walker would be a founding partner in the Rhode Island Savings &amp; Loan company in 1905, Rhode Island\u2019s first African American bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay R. Walker came to Newport from Culpepper County Virginia in 1860 and he would recruit other African American families to come to Newport after the Civil War. He established a successful transportation business at 9-11 Bridge Street that would remain in the Walker family for many generations. Walker would be a founding partner in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/?p=88\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lindsay R. Walker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}