Segregated drinking fountain in use in the American South. Undated photograph. Sign reads "For colored only."
View of a passengers under a sign that reads 'Colored Waiting Room' at a bus station , Durham, North Carolina, 1940. Several buses, one from the...
Rear view of a group of five women sitting on a bench on which 'Colored Only' is written, in Lakeland, Florida, circa 1955. A sign for the Lake...
Sign at Elkwallow Picnic Grounds in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, reading 'Picnic grounds for white only', USA, circa 1940.
Despite a court ruling on desegregating buses, white and blacks continue to be divided by their own choice.
Sign in Jackson, Mississippi which reads 'Waiting Room For Colored Only by order Police Dept.', 25th May 1961.
Atlanta, GA: Airman Second Class Philip Wagner, of New York City, en route to the Warner Robbins Air Force Base Near Macon, GA, pauses to examine the...
David Isom broke the color line in one of this city's segregated public pools this afternoon which resulted in officials closing the facility. This...
White tenants seeking to prevent African Americans from moving into the Sojourner Truth Homes, a federal governmental housing project, erected this...
Civil Rights activists are blocked by National Guardsmen brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee....
Segregation Sign at Greyhound Bus Terminal on Trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley for Office of War...
Man Drinking Water at "Colored" Water Cooler in Bus Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1939.
Demonstrators, a young boy among them, picket in front of a school board office in protest of segregation, St Louis, Missouri, early 1960s.
Sign outside an American restaurant points to the 'White Rest Rooms', in a clear indication of racial segregation, circa 1960.
Overcrowded Classroom due to enlargement of Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S....
View of crowds at an annual barbecue given on the plantation of FM Gay, Alabama, 1930s. The crowds are segregated.
Passenger points to one of the segregation signs removed from all Dallas Transit Company buses, following a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation...
Metal bus sign with a stenciled black paint in black that reads: [THIS PART OF BUS FOR / COLORED RACE]. In 1960, students planned, coordinated and...
Restaurant in Maryland has a sign over its front entrance designating it "white only" and telling African Americans that they must enter the...
On August 2 children sit on the steps of Malverne HIgh School in Malverne, New York with picket signs supporting integrated education. Three people...
Jim Crowism: Drinking fountain for colored men in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. Photograph, 1939. Original Caption
Bus Station with Sign "Colored Waiting Room", Durham, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, Office of War Information, May 1940.
Boy at Drinking Fountain with Sign "Colored" on County Courthouse Lawn, Halifax, North Carolina, USA, John Vachon, Farm Security Administration,...
Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Waiting for the bus at the Memphis terminal
African American youth in a segregated swimming pool, Baltimore, Maryland, November 16 Original Caption Reads: 'These Enthusiatic Youngsters Were...
Black and white passengers sit side by side on a Norfolk, Virginia, bus as racial segregation of intrastate transportation ended per U.S. Supreme...
Protesters demonstrating in the swimming pool of the Monson Motor Lodge in Saint Augustine, Florida scream as motel manager James Brock dumps...
Ca. 1941: Segregated store for migrant workers in Belle Glade, Florida, 1941. Police-order segregation was designed to assure only African-Americans...
Mrs Claire Cumberbatch, of 1303 Dean Street, leader of the Bedford-Stuyvesant group protesting alleged segregated school, leads the oath of...
African-American children in a segregated swimming pool at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1955.
Close-up of a sign on a restaurant window that reads 'We Cater to White Trade Only,' Lancaster, Ohio, 1938.
Photograph of a Civil Rights sit-in led by Clara Luper to desegregate the lunch counter at Katz Drug Store at Main and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma...
An outhouse at a rest stop between Louisville and Nashville bears a sign directing colored patrons to the dining room behind the outhouse. |...
People holding signs and American flags protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.
Beaten and bloody, a negro sits in the middle of the street while police check members of the mob which attacked and stoned him during a racie riot,...
Farmville, VA-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: The Federal Government, in an unprecedented move, asked the courts yesterday to force Prince Edward County,...
Man, wearing a white short-sleeve short, against a background of chainlink fencing on which is a sign reading 'Colored', United States, circa 1955.
White segregationist demonstrators protesting at the admission of the Little Rock Nine, to Central High School, 1959. The Little Rock Nine were a...
Uno,Virginia- Teacher Jackson is reading to his pupils here. All of them were born in Uno and come from ten families that make up the entire...
Procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.
October 9, 1956 - Fort Worth, Texas: Mrs. E.T. Holden and Mrs. Peggy Richard picket the Calvary Assembly of God church. After the Pastor, Reverend...
An African-American protester being attacked by a police dog during demonstrations against segregation, Birmingham, Alabama, May 4, 1963.
View of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown sits with her classmates at the racially segregated Monroe Elementary School, Topeka,...
Young African American children attending a reading lesson in a segregated elementary school. Washington, DC, March 1942.
Police stand guard as a group of African American students, escorted by Reverend James L. Johnson, march past two demonstrators protesting...
Women at William Franz Elementary School yell at police officers during a protest against desegregation at the school, as three black youngsters...
African-American children in a segregated swimming pool at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, July 4, 1940.
African-American children in a segregated swimming pool at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1940.
Interior of a bus with signs above the driver's seat reading 'No smoking, white passengers seat from front, colored passengers from rear' and 'Please...
Restaurant with Sign "We Cater to White Trade Only", Lancaster Ohio, USA, Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration, August 1938.
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