Segregated drinking fountain in use in the American South. Undated photograph. Sign reads "For colored only."
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...
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...
Sign at Elkwallow Picnic Grounds in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, reading 'Picnic grounds for white only', USA, circa 1940.
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...
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...
Sign in Jackson, Mississippi which reads 'Waiting Room For Colored Only by order Police Dept.', 25th May 1961.
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,...
New Orleans, LA: Entrance to New Orleans Parish Prison, showing segregated visiting periods. Undated photograph.
Despite a court ruling on desegregating buses, white and blacks continue to be divided by their own choice.
White tenants seeking to prevent African Americans from moving into the Sojourner Truth Homes, a federal governmental housing project, erected this...
Line of African American boys walk through a crowd of white boys on their way to school, Clinton, Tennessee, December 4, 1956.
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...
Bilingual apartheid sign declaring 'This beach is for the use of White Persons Only' on a beach near Hermanus in the Cape Province, South Africa,...
Segregation Sign at Greyhound Bus Terminal on Trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley for Office of War...
People holding signs and American flags protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.
Civil Rights activists are blocked by National Guardsmen brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee....
View of crowds at an annual barbecue given on the plantation of FM Gay, Alabama, 1930s. The crowds are segregated.
American civil rights activist Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the...
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....
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.
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...
Washington, DC: Spotswood Thomas Bolling, 15-year-old Washington, DC high school sophmore, was one of five central figures in the school segregation...
Passenger points to one of the segregation signs removed from all Dallas Transit Company buses, following a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation...
On August 2 children sit on the steps of Malverne HIgh School in Malverne, New York with picket signs supporting integrated education. Three people...
Restaurant in Maryland has a sign over its front entrance designating it "white only" and telling African Americans that they must enter the...
Jim Crowism: Drinking fountain for colored men in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. Photograph, 1939. Original Caption
African-American students attempt to get served at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Portsmouth, Virginia, 16th February 1960.
Woman sitting on bench reserved for the use of whites only, outside a sweet shop in the city of Johannesburg in South Africa.
View of a racially segregated classroom. The Federal Government, in an unprecedented move, asked the courts yesterday to force Prince Edward County,...
Farmville, VA-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: The Federal Government, in an unprecedented move, asked the courts yesterday to force Prince Edward County,...
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...
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,...
African American youth in a segregated swimming pool, Baltimore, Maryland, November 16 Original Caption Reads: 'These Enthusiatic Youngsters Were...
Two terrified African American girls flee police officers during a race riot in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. This is the second...
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...
African-American high school students at segregated Frederick Douglass High School, Baltimore, Maryland, 1932.
Spectateurs blancs et noirs séparés durant l'Apartheid dans un stade de Johannesburg le 17 octobre 1976
Close-up of a sign on a restaurant window that reads 'We Cater to White Trade Only,' Lancaster, Ohio, 1938.
Perry Blevens is all dressed up in his Ku Klux Klansman robes as he rides in the motorcade staged here by the Klan, April 14th. Looking out the car...
African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in...
African-American children in a segregated swimming pool at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1955.
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. |...
Jim Crowism in Florida movie house, rear entrance for colored people. Pensacola, FL, 1930'S. BPA2# 2602 ORIGINAL CAPTION