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| Philadelphia, 1889: Removing an African American from a Philadelphia Railway car--after the implementation of Jim Crow, the integration imposed by Reconstruction was stripped away by new laws. |
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| "The Agony of Lynching" by Laurence Foy. Block print originally published in the 1920s. |
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| Richmond, Virginia, 1899: Composing room of the Planet newspaper. |
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| The Rex Theater for Colored People, Leland, Misssissippi, 1939: Although many motion picture houses admitted both black and white patrons, they did so by segregating the audience. In such movie houses the blacks were seated upstairs in the balcony. A few theaters, like the Rex, completely separated the races, however, playing to all black audiences. The Rex was probably a black-owned theater. |
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| "Every Saturday morning there was a matinee at these movies, and we would pay 15 cents ... but we were separated; we went upstairs, the white kids went downstairs."--Willie Wallace, Eyewitness Narrative, Natchez, MS |
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| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 1939: "Colored" water fountains were fixtures throughout the South during the Jim Crow era. Photo by Russell Lee. |
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