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Eat at Big Apple Inn, Jackson, Mississippi
Back in the ’60, when Farish Street was a hub of Black-owned businesses, iconic civil rights leader Medgar Evers rented offices above this tiny, wood-paneled restaurant. His NAACP meetings often spilled over into the restaurant, its attendees likely eating pig-ear sandwiches and smokes. He also organized protests here, including the 1961 Freedom Rides. Big Apple started in 1939, when Juan “Big John” Mora, a Mexican who started selling tamales from a cart, rented a brick-and-mortar restaurant that he named after a popular dance. Mora’s son, Harold Lee, married a local African-American woman, Mae-Mama, and Big Apple remains one of the few (if only) places whose menu includes hot tamales and pig ears.
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