Use to restore Black entrepreneurship and to complicate institution-wide moral generalizations without romanticizing every saloon.
Johnson's life connects enslavement, emancipation, saloon ownership, real estate, entertainment, community reputation, and later wealth.
Hannush presents Cal Johnson's saloon as a disciplined business within a broader portfolio that generated capital and social standing, challenging the temperance assumption that every saloon was inherently disorderly.
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Cal Johnson and Knoxville's Black business community
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