{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Warhorn Blog Posts","title":"Wheaton College & President Buswell: Buswell inherits racist legacy","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/24da4f7e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2033,"description":"Excerpt:\nSeventeen years before President Buswell was hired, Wheaton College had suffered a scandal that reached national proportions. This scandal started with President Charles Blanchard accepting a Black female applicant for mid-year matriculation, Winter/Spring Semester of 1909.\n\nThis young woman's name was Nellie Bryant, and her application to Wheaton was the result of her being expelled from Berea College in southeast Kentucky.\n\nBerea College had expelled Bryant because she was Black...\n\n* * *\nSupport Warhorn here.\n\nMusic is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AFW0rf1xQjGi_r6Ka0_R5EeRkduf1x_6onee9qFgoLY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI0Mzc5LzE2NTIy/MDQyMTMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}