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Share Black Restaurants that Fed the Civil Rights Movement Havens that have also made history: These five dining establishments were pivotal in the South and can still be visited today. By Adrian Miller March 15, 2021
From the 1940s to the 1960s, restaurants in the South became high-profile focal points for the Civil Rights Movement because activists understood the powerful effect that desegregating White-owned eateries would have on the public s imagination. After all, restaurants are places where people from different walks of life gather for nourishment, social interaction, and an opportunity to belong to a community. These things go to the heart of what it means to be American.