The story
Charleston's only movie theater where Black patrons didn't face segregated seating was built by a Russian-Jewish immigrant and managed by an African American for decades.
Everything that was here
- 1919–1972
Lincoln TheatreTheater
Charleston's only movie theater where Black patrons didn't face segregated seating was built by a Russian-Jewish immigrant and managed by an African American for decades.
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