Catfish sandwich and fries
An educational consortium called the Atlanta University Center (AUC), located in Southwest Atlanta, was one of the city’s African-American communities. AUC schools, located across from the Georgia Dome, included the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University), Morris Brown College, Morehouse College, and Spelman College. In the neighborhood surrounding the AUC complex there were notable black eateries like Pascal’s, and more humble holes-in-the-wall in which black students sought refuge from their respective college cafeteria menus. In the 1950s and 1960s, AUC students “were trying to go some place and get good food off campus. Because the food was just institutional,” says Stanlie M. James who attended Spelman in the late 1960s. It was not like today where college cafeterias are operated like a food court with salad bars, pasta bars, and lots of options. James, originally from Iowa, goes on to say, when she was a student at Spelman, “if they were having liver and onions, then that’s what they were having.” So those who could at neighborhood cafés, cafeterias, restaurants, or mom and pop joints that sold carry out items like fried fish sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, and barbecue sandwiches. What are some of the names and locations of your favorite off campus high school and college eateries and descriptions of the menu items that you loved?
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