Campus Grills
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Is time to return to our back-to-school series. Founded in 1909, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), is a historically black college and university (HBCU) in Durham, North Carolina. NCCU was the state’s first liberal arts college for African Americans and it is located in Pettigrew an African American community in Durham. Two favorite restaurants of NCCU students in the 1950s were “Our Campus Grill” located on the campus of NCCU and the “Off Campus Grill” in the heart of Durham’s busy “Black Wall Street” African American business district. Both restaurants specialized in burgers and barbecue.
