J. J.’s occupies two former spaces that in the 1940s were The Belmont, a segregated café, and the OK Grocery store. The three front doors to this building are physical reminders of the segregation era. One was used by whites for the OK Grocery (African Americans entered through a back door no longer extant). The other two front doors were the “Whites Only
” and “Negroes Only
” entrances to the Belmont. J. J. closed the former “...
