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The Busy Bee Café
The Busy Bee Café is a restaurant in Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is a well-known location in the history of the Civil rights movement, U.S. civil rights movement. In 2022 it was named one of List of James Beard America's Classics, America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation. Description The restaurant specializes in southern and soul food specialties such as catfish, fried chicken, ham hocks, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, and cornbread. ''Country Living'' said it was best known for its fried chicken. History The restaurant was opened by Lucy Jackson, a self-taught cook from Carrollton, Georgia, in 1947 on what was at the time called Hunter Street, now Martin Luther King Drive. At that time Hunter Street was one of only two streets in Atlanta where Black entrepreneurs were allowed to open businesses and where Black diners were welcome in restaurants. The Busy Bee and Paschal's became meeting places for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther ...
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Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County and extends into neighboring DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County. With a population of 520,070 (2024 estimate) living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast and List of United States cities by population, 36th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. Atlanta is classified as a Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Beta +, Beta + global city and is the principal city of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, the core of which includes Cobb County, Georgia, Cobb, Clayton County, Georgia, Clayton and Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett counties, in addition to Fulton and DeKalb. ...
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Roadfood
''Roadfood'' is a series of books by Jane and Michael Stern originally published in 1977. The term Roadfood was coined by the Sterns to describe the regional cuisine they discovered when they began driving around America in the early 1970s. Their focus was not on deluxe fare, but on everyday local food – barbecue, chili, fried chicken, apple pie – and the unpretentious restaurants that serve it: diners, small-town cafes, seaside shacks, drive-ins, and bake shops. ''Roadfood'' was the first cross-country guide to regional American food. Background The Sterns, who had no formal training in cuisine or journalism, met at Yale University in 1968, married in 1970, and graduated in 1971, after which they left academia to explore the USA. At first, their focus was on popular culture in general, but after traveling around the country for a few years, they realized they had been keeping an informal diary of unknown and unique places to eat: inconspicuous restaurants that were, at t ...
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Restaurants In Atlanta
The following is a list of notable restaurants in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia: * Ann's Snack Bar * Antico Pizza * Atlas * Bacchanalia * Bread & Butterfly * The Busy Bee Café * The Chastain * Evergreen Butcher and Baker * Fellini's Pizza * FLIP Burger Boutique * Hayakawa * Junior's Grill * Lazy Betty * Mary Mac's Tea Room * Mellow Mushroom * Moe's Southwest Grill * Mrs. Winner's Chicken & Biscuits * Mujō * Nàdair * O by Brush * Omakase Table * Roly Poly * La Semilla * Shane's Rib Shack * Staplehouse * Taco Mac * The Varsity * The Vortex Bar & Grill See also * List of Michelin-starred restaurants in Atlanta {{Lists of restaurants Restaurants Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ... ...
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1947 Establishments In Georgia (U
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 – The ''Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946, Canadian Citizenship Act'' comes into effect, providing a Canadian citizenship separate from British law. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solv ...
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List Of Southern Restaurants
Following is a list of notable restaurants known for serving cuisine of the Southern United States: * Acadia: A New Orleans Bistro, Portland, Oregon, U.S. * Arnold's Country Kitchen, Nashville, Tennessee * Baes Fried Chicken, Portland, Oregon * Big Spring Cafe, Huntsville, Alabama * Biscuit Bitch, Seattle * Bomb Biscuits, Atlanta * Bridges Cafe (1994–2020), Portland, Oregon * The Bright Star, Bessemer, Alabama * Brochu's Family Tradition, Savannah, Georgia * Bully's Restaurant, Jackson, Mississippi * The Busy Bee Café, Atlanta, Georgia * Café Camellia, New York City * CHAR No.4 * The Chastain, Atlanta, Georgia * Corinne's Place, Camden, New Jersey * The Country Cat, Portland, Oregon * Country Cookin * Cracker Barrel * Crook's Corner (restaurant), Crook's Corner * Delta Cafe (1995), Portland, Oregon * Dirty Lettuce (2020), Portland, Oregon * Erica's Soul Food (2020), Portland, Oregon * Fat's Chicken and Waffles, Seattle * Florence's Restaurant, Oklahoma City * Gatlin's Fins ...
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List Of Soul Food Restaurants
Following is a list of notable soul food restaurants: * The Busy Bee Café, Atlanta, Georgia * Charles' Southern Style Kitchen, New York City * Communion Restaurant and Bar, Seattle, Washington * Corinne's Place, Camden, New Jersey * Delta Cafe, Portland, Oregon * Erica's Soul Food, Portland, Oregon * Everybody Eats PDX, Portland, Oregon * Fair Deal Cafe, North Omaha, Nebraska * Fat's Chicken and Waffles, Seattle * H&H Restaurant, Macon, Georgia * Jackson's Catfish Corner, Seattle * JuneBaby, Seattle, Washington * Kee's Loaded Kitchen, Portland, Oregon * Mama Lo's, Gainesville, Florida * Reo's Ribs, Portland, Oregon * Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles * Screen Door (restaurant), Screen Door, Portland, Oregon * Souley Vegan, Oakland, California * Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem ...
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Hosea Williams
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 – November 16, 2000) was an American American civil rights movement, civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician. He was considered a member of famed civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle. Under the banner of their flagship organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King depended on Williams to organize and stir masses of people into nonviolent direct action in myriad protest campaigns they waged against racial, political, economic, and social injustice. King alternately referred to Williams, his chief field lieutenant, as his "bull in a china shop" and his "Fidel Castro, Castro." Vowing to continue King's work for the poor, Williams is well known in his own right as the founding president of one of the largest social services organizations in North America, Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless. His famous motto w ...
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Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil and political rights, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination in the United States, discrimination. A Black church leader, King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, Desegregation in the United States, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize nonviol ...
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Paschal's
Paschal's is an American foodservice company based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in Southern cuisine. It was founded as a small sandwich shop in 1947 by brothers Robert and James Paschal, who worked together on their foodservice ventures for over 50 years until Robert's death in 1997. James Paschal continued to preside over the company until his death in 2008. Today Paschal's operates a restaurant in the Castleberry Hill section of Atlanta, a foodservice outlet at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and is a food vendor for other US airports and grocery stores. Early history Sandwich shop In 1947 the Paschal brothers, Robert (1909-1997) and James (1920-2008), originally from Thomson, Georgia, opened Paschal's Sandwich Shop at 837 West Hunter Street (since renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive) in Atlanta. Located in the black business district in proximity to downtown, the luncheonette had no kitchen space; Robert prepared the food at his home and sent it ...
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