Thanks again to Carl Tobias, who suggested a civil rights library trivia question a while back, I have a question that combines two topics I talk about now and then: civil rights and barbeque.
Where is the bbq restaurant at right and what is the restaurant's significance in civil rights history?
Now that Bill Turnier has identified the location, I thought that I'd add another photograph of King's Barbeque (though notice that the sign says BarBQ), which shows a little more about the restaurant's context. By the way, here's a nice reminiscence about the restaurant.
It is King's in Petersburg VA but that is all I know. I know nothing of the quality of their BBQ. We have a King's in Kinston that is a decent place to stop for BBQ on the way to the beach. They have pretty good banana pudding too. However, I recommend Wilbur's in Goldsboro as providing the best BBQ on a road trip to the NC beaches. Sorry but I will have to leave it to others to fill in the Civil Rights angle on any of them. I am sure they all have a nasty past.
Bill! You're good. You got that exactly. I didn't know there was more than one King's. I just heard the Blue Note recommended as the best BBQ in the triangle. Any thoughts on this?
Now, as to the story about its importance in civil rights history ….
So, I could scour my library and probably not find out the significane of King's, or I could just ask. What role did it play?
I am with Bob!
The short version of the story is King's was segregated and now it's not. I'll leave it up to Carl to tell a longer version of the story. And I must say that I'm looking forward to eating at King's next time I'm through Petersburg, which I hope will be very soon.