When Going To The Movies Felt Like 12 Years A Slave

“You walked into hell.

It’s a wonderful thing to memorialize. To me, the Carolina Theatre represented such an obvious expression of segregation. The separate entrance, the series of rickety stairs leading up to the upper balcony … it was something each citizen of Durham could look at every day.

“To remember that, to mark it as historic, is probably well to do, and let future generations have some sense of what segregation was really like.”