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Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of four restaurants founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925,〔(Coon Chicken Inn | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed )〕 which prospered until the late 1950s. The restaurant chain was popular in their day. The restaurant's name (which uses an ethnic slur), trademarks, and entrances of the restaurants were designed to look like a smiling blackface caricature of an African-American porter. The smiling capped porter head also appeared on menus, dishes, and promotional items. Due to change in popular culture and the general consideration of being culturally and racially offensive, the chain has since been discontinued and is now defunct. The first Coon Chicken Inn was opened in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925. In 1929, another restaurant was opened in then-suburban Lake City near Seattle, Washington,〔(Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project - The Coon Chicken Inn: North Seattle's Beacon of Bigotry )〕 and a third was opened in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon, in 1931. A fourth location was advertised but never opened in Spokane, Washington. Later, a cabaret, orchestra, and catering were added to the Seattle and Salt Lake restaurants.〔(Ferris State University: Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia )〕 An advertisement for the restaurant is shown in the mockumentary ''C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America'' where it is depicted as being successful in a fictional timeline of America where slavery and racism prevailed to the modern day. The Coon Chicken Inn advertisement also appears in ''Ghost World'', a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Terry Zwigoff. == See also == * Sambo's restaurant chain * List of chicken restaurants 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coon Chicken Inn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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