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"Maurice Bessinger built his fortune serving barbecue. At the half-dozen locations of his Piggie Park restaurants, customers could enjoy meats slathered in the yellow, mustard-based sauce unique to South Carolina.
That is, of course, unless they were black, for Bessinger was also a proud racist.
As late as the twenty-first century, Piggie Park distributed tracts to its customers claiming that the Bible is a pro-slavery document — one of them claimed that African slaves “blessed the Lord for allowing them to be enslaved and sent to America.”
After Congress banned whites-only restaurants in 1964, Bessinger reportedly put up an uncensored version of a sign warning that “
[t]he law makes us serve <n-word>, but any money we get from them goes to the Ku Klux Klan.”
And Bessinger wasn’t just an unapologetic racist,
he also believed that his right to discriminate flowed from the Lord Almighty himself. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned whites-only lunch counters, “contravenes the will of God,” according to a lawsuit Bessinger brought claiming he should be exempt from the law. The Supreme Court disagreed, ruling 8-0 in Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises that Bessinger’s claim that a religious objection could authorize discrimination was “patently frivolous.”
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