Juke Joints Part 1
Crossroads store, bar, jook joint, Louisiana, 1940, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
In Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta entrepreneurs operated juke joints where music played while black cooks prepared all kinds of comfort food including inexpensive cuts of pork like pig’s feet, fried chicken, biscuits, all kinds of greens, and sweet potato pie. Rural laborers who spent long days at work picketing cotton used the juke joints as places to shoot the breeze with friends, catch up on local news, drank, dance, and court.
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