Coon Chicken Inn Restaurant Dinner Plate

PLATE, a replica of the 1920's Coon Chicken Inn Restaurant.  The dinner plate has the restaurant logo in the center that is the grinning caricature of a black man. The back is marked with "O.P.CO. Syracuse -China-P-3". It measures 9 inches across. The restaurants sold southern fried “Coon Chicken” sandwiches and chicken pie, as well as hamburgers, seafood, chili and assorted sandwiches. Unfortunately, blacks were employed as waiters, waitresses, and cooks, though not necessarily welcomed as customers.