CLUB CANDY SERIES "The Sweet Truth"

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CLUB CANDY | The Complete Story Series Before the empire. Before the nightclub that changed Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Avenue forever. There was a mother, a promise, and a packet of Kool-Aid. Club Candy is the true story of how Eleanor Reynolds — a Black mother in 1962 Atlanta's Techwood Homes housing project — turned frozen sugar water into a movement, and a movement into one of the most iconic nightclubs in Southern history. This is where it began. Summer 1962. Six children. Suffocating heat. A nickel she didn't have. Eleanor's son Joey saw a picture in the newspaper — a white boy with a cherry-red popsicle, eyes closed in pure bliss. That image planted a seed of yearning so deep it hurt. The children pressed their noses to store windows watching other kids walk out with treats they could never afford. So Eleanor made a promise standing at her kitchen sink: she would bring sweetness into her home. A sweet