You can too.
These Black-owned restaurants survived the test of time. They beat the improbabilities of the restaurant business and the injustices of Jim Crow. They made Black history.
Emily and Dooky Chase, Sr. opened the doors in 1941 to Dooky Chase’s Restaurant. In the 1950s, New Orleans dockworkers were highly segregated and Jim Crow was alive and well. “There were no black owned banks then; but there were black-owned bars like Dooky’s that had the cash flow and knew their patrons well enough to take a chance cashing paychecks every Friday. Dooky’s bar was packed with men standing in line to get a drink while waiting for their Po-boy sandwiches to go. Friday nights at Dooky’s became a rip-roaring good time where beer, whiskey, and wine flowed almost as fast as the current of the Mighty Mississippi.”
Let their food nourish you. Hear their walls talk to you. Black history has so much to say.
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