Paschal’s Restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia served as a popular meeting place for civil rights organizers. It’s one of the eateries featured in my book Southern Food and Civil Rights. Brothers James and Robert Paschal first opened a lunch counter sandwich shop on Hunter Street in Atlanta in 1947. Overtime the brothers moved to a location adjacent to the Atlanta University Center (AUC). The AUC is the home of an academic consortium made of the campuses of Morehouse, Morehouse medical school, Spelman, Morris Brown, and Clark Atlanta University. In their new location the brothers expanded their business to include a motel and a night club. Paschal’s also had a lunch counter and grill where you could order fried chicken, collards and corn bread. Back when I taught in the Morehouse College History Department (2000-2003) Paschal's moved to a new elegant location that perhaps tripled its square footage and provided space for private dining rooms. The quality of the food had not changed.
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