East Tennessee History Center, 601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902, USA

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The African American Moviegoing Experience in the Segregated Era

East Tennessee History Center, 601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902, USA

Robert J. Booker will delve into the history of the African American moviegoing experience in Knoxville, Tennessee, in a conversation with Knoxville History Project Executive Director Jack Neely. Booker will discuss the city’s segregated Black theaters from the early 1900s to the 1960s, as well as his experiences at the Bijou Theatre, where African Americans…