{"id":16713,"date":"2021-02-05T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/?p=16713"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:46:12","slug":"black-history-month-zephyr-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/2021\/02\/05\/black-history-month-zephyr-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month \u2013 Zephyr Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Zephyr Wright:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zephyr Wright began her culinary career in 1940 to help pay her tuition at Wiley College located in Texas where she received her degree in Home Economics. Once hired by the Johnson Family, she became a personal advisor to Lady Bird &amp; LBJ on all civil rights &amp; equality topics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright and her husband\u2019s accounts of racial injustice were said to be a key factor in President Johnson\u2019s signing and adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So much so, that LBJ gifted her the pen used, saying, \u201cYou deserve this more than anybody else.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked to accompany (then) Senator LBJ back to Texas:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>\u201c<\/i><\/b><b><i>I\u2019m not going to do it&#8230;I\u2019m not allowed to go to the bathroom&#8230;we can\u2019t go into restaurants&#8230;Not until there\u2019s change.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2014 Zephyr Wright<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/28\/dining\/black-chefs.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zephyr Wright: Zephyr Wright began her culinary career in 1940 to help pay her tuition at Wiley College located in Texas where she received her degree in Home Economics. Once hired by the Johnson Family, she became a personal advisor to Lady Bird &#038; LBJ on all civil rights &#038; equality topics. Wright and her [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":16715,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16716,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713\/revisions\/16716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}