{"id":17117,"date":"2021-02-19T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/?p=17117"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:34:12","slug":"black-history-month-larry-jereline-bethune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/2021\/02\/19\/black-history-month-larry-jereline-bethune\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month \u2013 Larry &amp; Jereline Bethune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Larry &amp; Jereline Bethune:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The Bethune\u2019s restaurant, Brenda\u2019s Bar-B-Que Pit, served as the unofficial center for Montgomery, Alabama\u2019s Civil Rights Movement; holding meetings with NAACP leaders and organizing and promoting boycotts, including Rosa Parks\u2019 infamous Bus Boycott.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Jereline Bethune quietly held lessons to teach African-Americans to read so they could pass the literacy test (a way to suppress the black vote during the height of the Jim Crow era.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Jereline also participated in the Selma to Montgomery March that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201c<\/i><\/b><b><i>Let\u2019s learn how to read. Let\u2019s learn how to vote. Let\u2019s go after our own rights so we never have to be treated in a way that we\u2019re not equal to again.\u201d <\/i><\/b> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2014 Donetta Bethune<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Granddaughter of Larry &amp; Jereline Bethune<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2020\/08\/this-alabama-barbecue-joint-has-been-smoking-since-1942.html\">AL.com<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry &#038; Jereline Bethune: The Bethune\u2019s restaurant, Brenda\u2019s Bar-B-Que Pit, served as the unofficial center for Montgomery, Alabama\u2019s Civil Rights Movement; holding meetings with NAACP leaders and organizing and promoting boycotts, including Rosa Parks\u2019 infamous Bus Boycott. Jereline Bethune quietly held lessons to teach African-Americans to read so they could pass the literacy test (a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":17119,"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\/17117"}],"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=17117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17120,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117\/revisions\/17120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}