White Rose Cafe Building

The White Rose Cafe was started in 1947 by siblings Fred Carter, Irene Carter Magruder, and Courtney Carter Magruder.  The cafe served African-Americans in the community and outlying rural areas.  In the early 1960s, it was sold to George and Estella Reed and became a safe place where both white and African-American Civil Rights workers could dine, making it a publicly integrated business in the 1960s.