African Queen

Status: Closed

Parish: Concordia

Location: Ferriday

“Similarly the small black “jukes”—places like the African Queen in Ferriday—carried on a blues, hard drinking, and fist-fighting tradition, and like their white counterparts, were less cosmopolitan than the early clubs.”- Hiram Ford “Pete” Gregory, III

http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/DeltaReflections-Nightclubs.html

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Photo Credit: Nick Spitzer, Louisiana Folklife louisianafolklife.org