Colored Entrance to Paramount Theatre; Clarksdale, Mississippi 2

The Paramount Theatre, which opened as the Marion Theatre in 1918, was one of the first purpose-built movie theatres in Mississippi. While white theatre goers entered under neon lights on Yazoo Street, “Colored” people had to purchase their tickets around back and trudge up these stairs to the segregated sections of the upper and lower balcony.

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