Once advertised as “America’s finest theater exclusively for colored patrons,” the Carver Theater in Treme is headed to the auction block this month.
The starting bid for the New Orleans landmark and surrounding parcels is $2 million in the online auction, which is scheduled to run from July 17 to July 23.
Named after the pioneering Black scientist George Washington Carver, the historic theater was built in 1950 and served as a mecca for African American moviegoers during the segregation era…