Ice Cream Store

11.02.56 11.02.56 10.22.10 11.10.10 11.10.10 2007 This house, which faced W. Corporation., was located immediately behind 731 N. Mangum. The red arrow points to the northwest corner of the (still-standing-as-of-Feb-2014) building on N. Mangum St. that was 731's next door neighbor until 731's demise. The blue arrow points nominally north, toward W...

The Union Missionary Baptist church has destroyed an important piece of African-American history by destroying the former Royal Ice Cream Parlor, the site of very early sit-ins, even before Greensboro. Back in the 1950s, this building was the Royal Ice Cream parlor, a segregated business. From a timeline sent to me: