Inside Poor Monkey's

Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey's Lounge is the one of the last rural jook joints in the Mississippi Delta. There are several remaining urban jooks, and some modern reincarnations designed to reflect old time places, but virtu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luther Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2006-06-01
Series:Southern Spaces
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Online Access:https://southernspaces.org/node/42657