Juke Joints Part 2
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
In the Mississippi Delta Juke joints also served as places where laborers ate their daily meals. In a strange reversal of Jim Crow before it’s demise white men snuck into Juke Joints unobtrusively to drink and pick up takeout orders of food and drank in brown paper bags. The grilled, smoked, and barbecued meats that came out of these places represented a continuum of the cookery that came from the slave quarters and special occasion meals during the antebellum period.
