{"id":17113,"date":"2021-02-26T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:34:12","slug":"black-history-month-patrick-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/2021\/02\/26\/black-history-month-patrick-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month \u2013 Patrick Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span>Coleman\u2019s idea centered around the history of African-Americans packing meals in shoeboxes during the Jim Crow era when they were banned from and refused service in white-owned restaurants. The decorative boxes pay tribute to African-American trailblazers and raise awareness by including information about Freedom Riders and the Green Book, a guide that instructed black travelers on where to find safe havens throughout the deeply-segregated \u201960s South.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Part of the proceeds go to Detroit community development &amp; youth education programs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>\u201c<\/i><\/b><b><i>It\u2019s important that a younger generation understand the strength and determination that their forebears had to persevere through what we now consider normal day-to-day living. Despite the indignities of the era, black Americans found a way through resourcefulness as well as resolve.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2014 Patrick Coleman<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Source: Ebony, Fox Detroit<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coleman\u2019s idea centered around the history of African-Americans packing meals in shoeboxes during the Jim Crow era when they were banned from and refused service in white-owned restaurants. The decorative boxes pay tribute to African-American trailblazers and raise awareness by including information about Freedom Riders and the Green Book, a guide that instructed black travelers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":17115,"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\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17116,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions\/17116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}