Meet America's first-ever celebrity bartender, and pull up a stool for several iconic mint juleps. Teddy Roosevelt makes multiple cameos while J. and Kas take a tour through America's favorite Black bartenders.
Sources:
The History of Black Bartenders
Famous Black Bartenders: Trailblazers and Pioneers
Five Unheralded Pioneers of the American Bar Who Pre-Date "Professor" Jerry Thomas
Cato’s Road House. Colonial African American Tavern Owner who Originated the term Cocktail
Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society
The Double Life of New York’s Black Oyster King
“Imbibe!” by David Wondrich
“Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice” by Toni Tipton-Martin
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