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Iris Rideau
Iris Rideau (born c. 1937) is an American winemaker, businesswoman and activist. She is the first African-American winemaker to own and operate a winery in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Tour of Rideau Vineyards )〕
==Early life==
Rideau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, a paternal descendent of Frenchman Armand Allard Gabriel Duplantier who sailed to America in 1777 on Marquis de Lafayette's ship ''La Victoire'' and established a plantation in Point Coupee, and later the Magnolia Mound plantation in Baton Rouge.
She grew up in the Creole 7th Ward of the city, where her mother and uncles operated the Creole Bar and Grille. She has said, "There was not a great emphasis placed on education in my community, especially with Creole. Both my father and my mother attended high school, but neither graduated. Her father left the family and departed to California after her parents divorced when she was two-years old." She initially aspired to become a Broadway dancer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Iris Rideau profile at )〕 Her grandmother moved in and taught Rideau to speak French. In the summer months she visited her father and worked at his ranch in Corona, California, and after several years of insistence that she wanted to live closer to her father, they moved into a one room flat in eastern Los Angeles when she was 12.〔
Her mother found work at a nearby sewing factory. At 16, Iris she became pregnant and married, only to divorce the father of her daughter, Renee, a year later.〔 She found employment at her mother's factory and enrolled in night classes at a junior college. Rideau has said of her employment at the factory and decision to take night classes, ''"The line of mostly Black and Hispanic women would wrap around the corner in the mornings. We made about $15 a week. I knew I'd need an education or I'd never escape."'' She graduated after a year and began working as a receptionist for an insurance agency, passing as a white woman to keep her job.〔
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