Segregation Collection (page 2)

Railroad yards, Kearney, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Railroad yards, Kearney, Nebraska. Overland train passengers go back to their cars after ten minute train stop on trip between San Francisco and Chicago

Unloading the household goods of a family who is being moved into... Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937
Unloading the household goods of a family who is being moved into the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas

Unloading household goods of a family of white flood refugees in camp, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937
Unloading household goods of a family of white flood refugees in camp at Forrest City, Arkansas

A girl in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
A girl in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas

The kitchen in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
The kitchen in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas

Unloading the household goods of a family who is being... Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
Unloading the household goods of a family who is being moved into the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas

Facilities for washing in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
Facilities for washing in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas

Possibly: A girl in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
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Setting up a tent in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
Setting up a tent in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas

Possibly: Setting up a tent in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
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Possibly: Facilities for washing in the camp for white flood... at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
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Facilities for washing in the camp for white flood... at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
Facilities for washing in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas

Ferry boats still transport some of the traffic between New York City and Jersey, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ferry boats still transport some of the traffic between New York City and Jersey. [Note separate areas for Men and Women ]

Possibly: The kitchen in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
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Vaccination in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Marianna, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
Vaccination in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Marianna, Arkansas

Possibly: Refugees lined up at meal time in the camp for white... Forest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
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Refugees lined up at meal time in the camp for white flood refugees in Forest City, Arkansas, 1937
Refugees lined up at meal time in the camp for white flood refugees in Forest City, Arkansas

Design for the Opening Meeting Invitation Card of the Princes Ladies Golf Club, Mitcham, 1894. Woman golfer in elaborate hat and floor-length dress, with caddy dressed as Pierrot

Autograph sheet from Negro League Baseball Players Association Reunion, October 13, 1990
A white autograph sheet with black printed text " N.L.B.P.A. / AUTOGRAPH SHEET" at the top. The middle has a printed baseball diamond with 50 signatures of Negro League players in different

Report card for Carlotta Walls from Little Rock Central High School, 1957 - 1958
Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the nine African-American students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in September 1957. In 1954 the U.S

Poll tax receipt for Lee Carr from Hardin County, Texas, 1955. Creator: Unknown
During the era of segregation in the United States, voting rights were denied to African Americans in the form of discriminatory taxation

Souvenir programme for the Southern Tennis Association Annual Tournament, 1933
A souvenir program for an annual tennis tournament sanctioned by the Southern Tennis Association and held at the Tuskegee Institute 2-5 August 1933

Souvenir programme for 1924 Worlds Colored Championship, 1924. Creator: Lemaitre
A 20-page souvenir program for the 1924 Worlds Colored Championship baseball series. The world of sport, like so many other areas of life

Programme for Club Ebony, 1947-1948. Creator: Unknown
The program is a single sheet of heavyweight cream paper that folds in half. The front features a black and red illustration of a conga drum and womans head printed in the top left corner

Diploma for Carlotta Walls from Little Rock Central High School, July 8, 1960
Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the nine African-American students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in September 1957. In 1954 the U.S

Pennant from a Negro League East vs. West All-Star Game, ca. 1933. Creator: Unknown
Souvenir from one of the annual East-West All-Star Games for Negro league baseball players during the era of racial segregation. This game was played at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois

Wool sweater for the Eastern Colored League, 1923-1928. Creator: Unknown
The Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Clubs, also known as the Eastern Colored League (ECL), was one of the several Negro leagues in the United States during the time that organised baseball was

Building brick from Spelman Colleges Upton Hall, ca. 1905. Creator: Unknown
Spelman College, in Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, historically Black, womens liberal arts college. A clay brick that was once part of the structure of Spelman Colleges Upton Hall

Fan advertising the American Beach Negro Ocean Playground, ca. 1935. Creator: Unknown
The Negro Ocean Playground at American Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida, was a place where African-Americans could enjoy Recreation and Relaxation Without Humiliation

The Nations Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4, 1956-1957. Creator: Unknown
Newsletter of " The Nations Prayer Call" from the Zion Baptist Church. The newsletter has two pages total with black printed text on both sides. The paper is yellowed and creased

Poster for an All Stars baseball game, 1930s. Creator: Unknown
Advertisement for a baseball game between the Colored All Stars and the White All Stars at Halloran Park, Lima, Ohio. Games between top Black teams

Building brick from Bethune-Cookman Universitys White Hall, ca. 1916. Creator: Unknown
A clay brick that was once part of the structure of Bethune-Cookman Universitys White Hall. BCU is a private historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida

Sign for the Booker T. Motel, ca. 1950. Creator: Unknown
Motel sign from Humboldt, Tennessee, named for Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), an African-American educator, author and orator. Colored indicates that the motel was for African-Americans only

Sign from segregated railroad station, ca. 1930s. Creator: Unknown
Under segregation in the United States, Black people were prohibited from using the same facilities as whites. They were forced to use separate and often inferior services such as housing

Doll owned by Clementine Roundtree Cottee and Josephine English Church, ca. 1920
Doll representing a white baby, owned by African-American children. Dolls representing black children were manufactured at this period, but were often mammy doll stereotypes

Pickrick Drumstick signed by Lester Maddox, ca. 1964. Creator: Unknown
The wooden stick has printed type in blue ink that reads: [LESTER MADDOXs / PICKRICK DRUMSTICK]. A note written to Media Access Project by hand in black ink is featured on one side of the object

Deacons chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, ca. 1900
Four-legged wooden, bentwood chair. Chair seat is round with carved, shallow ridges on seat top. Ridges are in expanding, concentric " U" shapes

Outfit worn by Carlotta Walls to Little Rock Central High School, 1957. Creator: Unknown
Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the nine African-American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in September, 1957

Program from the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Creator: Unknown
The purpose of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans

Program for Coon Town Suffragettes, 1914. Creator: Unknown
A four page program for the silent short film Coon Town Suffragettes. On the first page of the program is a woman standing on a pedestal like box appearing to address a larger group of women

Lamp from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse, 1970s. Creator: Unknown
An electric lamp with the word " BAR" printed on the lamp shade. The lamp shade is ball shaped, and is made from plastic treated to look like frosted glass

Bumper sticker with the slogan One Man, One Vote, 1962 - 1965. Creator: Unknown
A blue bumper sticker with green and white print. Vertical text down the left side reads: [SNCC]. Text moving from left to right along the sticker reads: [ONE MAN x ONE VOTE]

Pennant for the Cincinnati Clowns, 1943 - 1945. Creator: Unknown
Triangular Cincinnati Clowns felt baseball pennant. The pennant is primarily made of maroon felt with a strip of yellow felt stitched to the left edge with red knotted tassels

Baseball stamped with the Negro American League logo, 1937-1962. Creator: Unknown
An official Negro American League Baseball in a Wilson box. The baseball is white with red lacing. Stamped in black ink is: [Negro American League / Wilson / Made in the U. S. A

Advertising fan from the Cotton Club, 1923-1935. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Club in New York City initially refused entry to black patrons, even though the venue featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era, including Duke Ellington

No. 1018, White Mans Bar, 1895-1910. Creator: Thomas H. Lindsey
A cabinet card with a black-and-white print of an unidentified man drinking from a jug while sitting in a wagon. The Conestoga wagon is missing its canvas cover so that the man is fully visible

Scene during Tulsa Race Riot June 1st 1921. Creator: Unknown
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, mobs of white residents brutally attacked the African American community of Greenwood, colloquially known as " Black Wall Street

Old Jim Crow Has Got to Go!, 1941. Creator: Unknown
Pamphlet consisting of black and white text on yellowed paper and black margins. Illustrated on the cover a fist has punched through a barrier with labels including " peonage

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