Meet America's first-ever celebrity bartender, and pull up a stool for several iconic mint juleps. Teddy Roosevelt makes multiple cameos while J. and Kas take a tour through America's favorite Black bartenders.

Sources:

A History of Black Bartenders

The History of Black Bartenders

Famous Black Bartenders: Trailblazers and Pioneers

Five Unheralded Pioneers of the American Bar Who Pre-Date "Professor" Jerry Thomas 

Cato’s Road House. Colonial African American Tavern Owner who Originated the term Cocktail

Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society

The Double Life of New York’s Black Oyster King

“Imbibe!” by David Wondrich

“Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice” by Toni Tipton-Martin

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