Whiskey Jug

Name/Title

Whiskey Jug

Entry/Object ID

X.0082

Description

Ceramic jug

Context

The 1890's represent an era of increasing racial restrictions in the city of Florence and throughout the nation. Tom Haaf's segregated bar is part of a strategy, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, that increasingly restricted African American access to public spaces.