Looking across Macomb Street toward the Red Bird Cafe in Tallahassee
Title
Looking across Macomb Street toward the Red Bird Cafe in Tallahassee
Description
The Red Bird Café was situated at the center of the historic Frenchtown neighborhood in Tallahassee throughout the 1960s and 1970s. A popular dance club and bar, the Red Bird Café hosted both local acts and groups touring the Circuit. Activists held at least one political rally on the Red Bird Café’s sidewalk in the early 1970s. Like a larger club in Jacksonville, the Red Bird Café was housed inside an old Knights of Pythias meeting hall. The Knights of Pythias was an important fraternal society and mutual aid organization that resisted Jim Crow discrimination in the 1920s.
Creator
Hilliard, Stephen
Publisher
State Archives of Florida
Date
197-
Rights
See source for restrictions
Format
Image/jpeg
Type
Image
Coverage
Tallahassee, Florida
Files
Citation
Hilliard, Stephen, “Looking across Macomb Street toward the Red Bird Cafe in Tallahassee,” The Sunshine Stroll: Music and Politics on the Florida Chitlin’ Circuit, 1935-1970, accessed March 28, 2024, https://cbcrenshaw.omeka.net/items/show/15.