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

Red_Bird_Tallahassee.jpg

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.