{"id":16024,"date":"2022-05-30T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=16024"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:21","slug":"nokomis-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/nokomis-jefferson\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokomis Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Nokomis Jefferson<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Capitol Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/t8541063.p.clickup-attachments.com\/t8541063\/388f4b9e-0e3e-40e8-9196-fa959df7cf0d\/image.png\" alt=\"A picture containing text, person, posing, oldDescription automatically generated\" width=\"358\" height=\"627\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie McBryde and Nokomis Jefferson, photo via <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nokomis Jefferson, a member of the Capitol Ballet, trained at the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. He performed with the company at the Cramton Auditorium of Howard University in May 1964 and May 1968, the National Museum of Natural History in June 1969, and the Henderson A. Johnson Gymnasium at Fisk University in April 1970. Jefferson reportedly passed away on January 31, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolandcollegelistings.com\/US\/Washington-D.C.\/185842334759129\/Jones-Haywood-School-of-Dance-Alumni\">Jones Haywood School of Dance Alumni, School &amp; College Listings<\/a><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> June 1964, p. G4<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> May 1968, p. C6<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> June 1969, p. B8<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tennessean<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 23th April 1970, p. 37<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img5.schoolandcollegelistings.com\/585\/382\/741561945853829.jpg\" alt=\"Photos from Jones Haywood School of Dance Alumni's post\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokomis Jefferson Capitol Ballet Nokomis Jefferson, a member of the Capitol Ballet, trained at the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. He performed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16105,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024\/revisions\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}