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Ellis Theatre; Cleveland, Mississippi 2018

Ghosts of Segregation: Rich Frishman | New Orleans Photo Alliance | PhotoNOLA 2019

On the left is the Eiilis Theatre’s entrance for “colored people.” On the right is the colored restroom entrance. Buddy Jennings writes:
“The one thing that sticks out most in my mind about the Ellis is the Saturday June Smith (a black friend of mine who also lived on Kennedy’s farm) and I walked all the way there to see a Tarzan movie and they would not let us sit together. June had to sit up in the balcony and they would not let me sit up there with him. The movie cost me a quarter and cost June fifteen cents. We were only nine or ten years old at the time and had our parents’ permission to walk all the way to Cleveland and back, even though it would be close to midnight before we were back home.”
©Rich Frishman
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Posted on: Sep 07 2019

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