Sign outside an American restaurant points to the 'White Rest Rooms', in a clear indication of racial segregation, circa 1960.
Motel sign from Humboldt, Tennessee, named for Booker T. Washington , an African-American educator, author and orator. 'Colored' indicates that the...
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...
Gas station in Sandy Run, South Carolina, depicting signage barring African-Americans from entering in the 1950s.
Civil Rights activists are blocked by National Guardsmen brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee....
Despite a court ruling on desegregating buses, white and blacks continue to be divided by their own choice.
Procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.
Drinking Fountain with Sign "Colored" nailed to Tree near County Courthouse, Halifax, North Carolina, USA, John Vachon, U.S. Farm Security...
Bus Station with Sign "Colored Waiting Room", Durham, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, Office of War Information, May 1940.
Example of racial discrimination, "Dining Room White Only" sign posted outside a restaurant, circa 1955.
Under segregation in the United States, Black people were prohibited from using the same facilities as whites. They were forced to use separate and...
Picture taken in Johannesburg in March 1948 of a notice board with the rules under which non-European people are not allowed to use a lift, reserved...
New York, NY: Kress Picketed - pickets representing the Congress of Racial Equality , give handbills to passerbys as they patrol before the building...
Two police officers and their K-9 dog forcefully remove Ruth Tinsley away from a downtown Richmond department store when she refused to move on....
South Africa Apartheid A Couple of White Men Ride on Rickshaw Pulled by a Black African, Studio Photograoh, Durban c1940
Several men picketed in front of Bellevue Stratford Hotel to protest discriminatory hiring practices of Washington Red Skins owner, George Marshall.
Segregated drinking fountain in use in the American South. Undated photograph. Sign reads "For colored only."
Segregation Sign at Greyhound Bus Terminal on Trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley for Office of War...
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...
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...
Restaurant in Maryland has a sign over its front entrance designating it "white only" and telling African Americans that they must enter the...
Five African American women sitting on a bench labelled 'Colored Only' in Lakeland, Florida, USA, circa 1960. The Lake Theatre is visible in the...
People holding signs and American flags protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.
African-American students attempt to get served at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Portsmouth, Virginia, 16th February 1960.
Mrs Claire Cumberbatch, of 1303 Dean Street, leader of the Bedford-Stuyvesant group protesting alleged segregated school, leads the oath of...
Drinking Fountain Marked "White", Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards, Baltimore Maryland, USA, Arthur S Siegel, Office of War Information, May 1943.
To the soft beat of muffled drums, protesters march down San Francisco's Market Street carrying posters and four coffins symbolizing four Black men...
Students of the Anacostia High School are shown running after some Negro school children as a local schools today in protest against the end of...
Johnny Gray punches a white student during a scuffle in Little Rock, Arkansas. Johnny and his sister, Mary , were en route to their segregated school...
Little Rock, Arkansas: A woman and a child, both of whom refused to identify themselves, March in front of the Arkansas Capitol here, August 12th,...
Little Rock, AR: Governor Faubus, during a television broadcast, appeals to voters of the little rock school dist. To vot for for segregation of...
Color coded illustrated map of Richmond, Virginia in the United States, April 3, 1937. It is annotated to show mortgage lending risk based on...
This bus station waiting room sign, circa 1957, is from the Birmingham AL, Greyhound Bus Station. It is a standard train or bus station sign from a...
Photograph of Carolyn House, Brenda Officer, Paul Anderson, and other people at an African American Civil Rights sit-in segregation protest at John A...
Washington, DC: A group of individuals representing the Christian Anti-Jewish Party picketed the White House protesting the recent Supreme court...
The aftermath of the massacre at Sharpeville, thirty miles from Johannesburg, in which more than fifty black South Africans lost their lives. Police...
Two members of the Fort Wayne Youth Council of the NAACP are shown picketing near an entrance to the Northcrest Shopping Center in Fort Wayne. Four...
Street Scene, Door Marked "White Ladies Only", Durham, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, Office of War Information, May 1940.
Supporters of the Anti-Apartheid 'Stop the Tour' movement parade with posters outside the Grace Gate at Lord's.
Puerto Rican residents of New York City stage silent demonstration, their first independent move to enforce demands for an end to school segregation,...
Torch lit demonstration in Johannesburg to demand the resignation of the Malan government over their rejection of the Supreme Court invalidation of...
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