When the group arrived, the owner told them that white customers would stop coming into the restaurant if blacks were served.
The woman was a known prostitute who had white customers.
"We even get a lot of white customers who exit the freeway near the restaurant and come in just for our soul food."
A significant number came from white customers who found the treatment of blacks offensive.
Attracting white paying customers to your books, theater or music, of course, meant success.
Once, Russell's father was refused service at a gasoline station until the staff had taken care of all the white customers.
But a trickle of white customers is the only thing that has kept them from shutting down.
Unlike cola, however, film has until now been a business for white customers.
And surely they wouldn't come in here round my white customers.
For example, a white customer may like to be served by a white worker.