B12 Columbia, Kentucky USA 1802

I'll never forget the song, “No Particular Place To Go” by Chuck Berry. They cooked our food, and we made our order and cooked our food and everything and put it in a paper sack. We told them we were going to sit there. We were going to eat it there. Said, nope. Couldn't eat it there. . . . 

Well, we paid for it and they would not let us eat it and we didn't do a thing but just get up and leave.

— Bonita Lasley, “Oral History Interview with Bonita Lasley, Sylvia White, and Lottie Alexander,” 2002

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