Annie Fisher's path to fame, 'paved with beaten biscuits' from Missouri, was nearly forgotten | KCUR kcur.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kcur.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Annie Fisher earned notoriety in Columbia and across the country for her famous beaten biscuits. She cooked her way to wealth despite living during the years of Jim Crow.
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Few people would relish being told where they can and can t go. But that was the reality for African Americans living in the Jim Crow era.
From 1936 to 1966,
The Negro Motorist Green Book and subsequent titles helped keep Black travelers and their families safe, with warnings about sundown towns, where people of color could face intimidation and violence after dark, and recommendations on the hotels, restaurants, and businesses that would welcome them. Portrait of unidentified people on the wooden steps of the Idlewild Club House, Idlewild, Michigan, September 1938.
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A snapshot taken in 1938 in Idlewild, Michigan, a resort town that welcomed African Americans and became known as the Black Eden.