Loew’s State Theater on Canal Street closed its balcony to Black patrons in September 1950. They no longer had to face mice and three flights of a “rickety” staircase, but they also lost a place to go to watch movies.

Fortunately, the Carver Theater opened on Orleans Avenue at the same time.

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