April 6, 2008
Rosa B.J. Brown gone at 86
The April 3-5 issue of the Richmond Free Press reports the passing of Rosa B.J. Brown who, with her husband, operated Brown’s Lunchroom in Jackson Ward in the 1940s and 1950s until “they were forced to close in the late 1950s when the new Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike was constructed through Jackson Ward, ripping up the community and displacing several thousand residents along with churches and businesses.”









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