Popular Culture
The Jitney Jungle is mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
'And where are you going, Miss Stephanie?' inquired Miss Maudie. 'To the Jitney Jungle.' Miss Maudie said she'd never seen Miss Stephanie go to the Jitney Jungle in a hat in her life.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Chapter 16
Miss Stephanie (who by the time she had told it twice had been there and seen it all, passing by from the Jitney Jungle she was).
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Chapter 23
A Jitney supermarket is displayed by picture in the first scene of the 2006 American musical film, Idlewild. In essence, the picture reference to the Jitney was a symbol of what living in the American South during the 1930s was like.
Jitney Jungle is also mentioned in the 1998 play The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman.
CLINT. '...I robbed a Jitney Jungle once. They got those in Alabama? They got 'em in Florida. They're just like Mini Mart, only better. ...'
The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman, act 1, scene 2
In The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the local Jitney Jungle is where the whites shop. The blacks shop at a Piggly Wiggly
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—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
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