A Safe Place
June 2025. If you click on the link, you will find that although the desire is there, it looks like it will never open again. Through the years, Lassis Inn was known for more than its fish. In the years leading up to the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Daisy Bates and other civil rights leaders held frequent meetings at the restaurant. It became known that Lassis Inn was one of the few safe places in the community where people could gather to discuss the numerous problems associated with segregation and other manifestations of racism. Excerpt from this post:
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lassis-inn-12248/
Sherman Road and East 27th in Little Rock, Arkansas USA.
RolleiRetro80s.PentaxSuperProgram.VivitarAF19-35mm.YellowFilter.CaffenolCL-1hour+.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
A Safe Place
June 2025. If you click on the link, you will find that although the desire is there, it looks like it will never open again. Through the years, Lassis Inn was known for more than its fish. In the years leading up to the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Daisy Bates and other civil rights leaders held frequent meetings at the restaurant. It became known that Lassis Inn was one of the few safe places in the community where people could gather to discuss the numerous problems associated with segregation and other manifestations of racism. Excerpt from this post:
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lassis-inn-12248/
Sherman Road and East 27th in Little Rock, Arkansas USA.
RolleiRetro80s.PentaxSuperProgram.VivitarAF19-35mm.YellowFilter.CaffenolCL-1hour+.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1