Segregated drinking fountain in use in the American South. Undated photograph. Sign reads "For colored only."
Sign in Jackson, Mississippi which reads 'Waiting Room For Colored Only by order Police Dept.', 25th May 1961.
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...
Police stand guard as a group of African American students, escorted by Reverend James L. Johnson, march past two demonstrators protesting...
People holding signs and American flags protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.
Sign at Elkwallow Picnic Grounds in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, reading 'Picnic grounds for white only', USA, circa 1940.
White tenants seeking to prevent African Americans from moving into the Sojourner Truth Homes, a federal governmental housing project, erected this...
Passenger points to one of the segregation signs removed from all Dallas Transit Company buses, following a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation...
In 1923, the Hollywood Association started a campaign to expel the Japanese from their community. Hollywood resident, Mrs. B. G. Miller, points to an...
On August 2 children sit on the steps of Malverne HIgh School in Malverne, New York with picket signs supporting integrated education. Three people...
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...
Sign outside an American restaurant points to the 'White Rest Rooms', in a clear indication of racial segregation, circa 1960.
Segregation Sign at Greyhound Bus Terminal on Trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley for Office of War...
Birmingham, AL: Demonstrating students wave a Confederate flag as they chant and jeer outside West End High School. Three Birmingham schools were...
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...
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...
Despite a court ruling on desegregating buses, white and blacks continue to be divided by their own choice.
Gas station in Sandy Run, South Carolina, depicting signage barring African-Americans from entering in the 1950s.
Procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.
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...
View of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown sits with her classmates at the racially segregated Monroe Elementary School, Topeka,...
Group of school children posing in front of a school bus in Calhoun County in South Carolina in the 1950s.
Demonstrators, a young boy among them, picket in front of a school board office in protest of segregation, St Louis, Missouri, early 1960s.
Teenager and an adult during a protest against school integration in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, 1963. The youth holds a placard reading 'Keep Alabama...
Black and white passengers sit side by side on a Norfolk, Virginia, bus as racial segregation of intrastate transportation ended per U.S. Supreme...
As segregation on city bus lines ended after a Supreme Court ruling, many Black riders still took their seats at the back of the bus, where they had...
Close-up of a sign on a restaurant window that reads 'We Cater to White Trade Only,' Lancaster, Ohio, 1938.
Group of high school students from north and Northwestern sections of Baltimore are shown grouped in front of City Hall shouting their demands that...
Restaurant with Sign "We Cater to White Trade Only", Lancaster Ohio, USA, Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration, August 1938.
Adult members of the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils join teengers protesting school desegregation in Montgomery. The Supreme Court ordered...
Adult members of the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils join teengers protesting school desegregation in Montgomery. The Supreme Court ordered...
Jim Crowism: Drinking fountain for colored men in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. Photograph, 1939. Original Caption
Ca. 1941: Segregated store for migrant workers in Belle Glade, Florida, 1941. Police-order segregation was designed to assure only African-Americans...
Man, wearing a white short-sleeve short, against a background of chainlink fencing on which is a sign reading 'Colored', United States, circa 1955.
Overcrowded Classroom due to enlargement of Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S....
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,...
An outhouse at a rest stop between Louisville and Nashville bears a sign directing colored patrons to the dining room behind the outhouse. |...
White segregationist demonstrators protesting at the admission of the Little Rock Nine, to Central High School, 1959. The Little Rock Nine were a...
The group of nine African American students walk past members of the National Guard as they use a side door to enter Central High School in Little...
Women at William Franz Elementary School yell at police officers during a protest against desegregation at the school, as three black youngsters...
Police officers stand by as a group of African American demonstrators kneel in prayer during the hearing for the Freedom Riders at Albany's City Hall...
Twenty-one year old ministerial student and member of the Freedom Riders, Jim Zwerg, lies in a hospital bed after being beaten by pro-segregationists...
American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Lieutenant DH Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, after she was arrested during the...
View of crowds at an annual barbecue given on the plantation of FM Gay, Alabama, 1930s. The crowds are segregated.
View of an African American passenger standing under a sign that reads 'Colored Waiting Room' at a bus station , Durham, North Carolina, 1940. A bus...
Crowd of white students protest outside their Montgomery high school after black students are admitted. The teenagers wave Confederate flags and are...
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...
African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in...
Protesters demonstrating in the swimming pool of the Monson Motor Lodge in Saint Augustine, Florida scream as motel manager James Brock dumps...
Farmville, VA-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: The Federal Government, in an unprecedented move, asked the courts yesterday to force Prince Edward County,...
Portrait of an unidentified Blank man, in a hat and overcoat, as he stands beside a restroom sign that reads 'Non White Males,' Johannesburg, South...
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