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12,377 American Segregation Images and Stock Photos

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White tenants seeking to prevent African Americans from moving into the Sojourner Truth Homes, a federal governmental housing project, erected this...

Jim Crowism in Florida movie house, rear entrance for colored people. Pensacola, FL, 1930'S. BPA2# 2602 ORIGINAL CAPTION

Segregated Movie Theater

Segregation Sign at Greyhound Bus Terminal on Trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley for Office of War...

Segregation Sign at Greyhound Bus Terminal on Trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, September 1943

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...

Stateside Segregation

Washington, D.C.- View of the scene outside the RKO Keith Theatre in Washington last night when the film version of "Abraham Lincoln in Illinois" had...

People Outside Segregated Theatres

Sign at Elkwallow Picnic Grounds in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, reading 'Picnic grounds for white only', USA, circa 1940.

Whites Only Picnic Area

Black and white passengers sit side by side on a Norfolk, Virginia, bus as racial segregation of intrastate transportation ended per U.S. Supreme...

Close-up of a sign on a restaurant window that reads 'We Cater to White Trade Only,' Lancaster, Ohio, 1938.

Racist Restaurant Sign

segregated water fountains - american segregation stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Segregated water fountains

Restaurant in Maryland has a sign over its front entrance designating it "white only" and telling African Americans that they must enter the...

Restaurant With "Whites Only" Entrance

Man Ascending Stairs to "Colored" Entrance of Crescent Theater, Belzoni, Mississippi, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, October...

Man Ascending Stairs to "Colored" Entrance of Crescent Theater, Belzoni, Mississippi, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, October 1939

View of pedestrians, mostly young women, as they walk past a bus station , Durham, North Carolina, 1940. Visible at left is door that reads 'White...

N Magnum St In Durham, NC

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....

Police Officers Forcefully Removed Ruth Tinsley from Protest

Exterior view of a 'Bryant's Place, Hot Fish' sign in a restaurant window, Memphis, Tennessee, June 1937. Another reads 'For Colored.'

'Bryant's Place, Hot Fish'

This is a Washington, DC movie house before the show began, March 1941. The partition keeps the colored and white people apart.

A NY Police Reporter's Impressions Of Washington

Radical Convention, Philadelphia 1866

Radical Convention, Philadelphia 1866

View of segregated public restrooms labelled 'ladies,' 'men' and 'colored,' USA, circa 1960.

Segregated Restrooms

Line of African Americans hailing from states across the USA march to protest segregation. Ca. 1950.

African Americans Protesting Segregation

Black little girl leaves a cafe through a door marked 'For Colored,' circa 1950.

Segregated Cafe

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...

At A Durham Bus Station

Man, wearing a white short-sleeve short, against a background of chainlink fencing on which is a sign reading 'Colored', United States, circa 1955.

Stateside Segregation

An outhouse at a rest stop between Louisville and Nashville bears a sign directing colored patrons to the dining room behind the outhouse. |...

Dining Room Behind Outhouse

Supporters of the Congress of Racial Equality demonstrate against racial segregation in southern US stores outside a Woolworth's store next to the...

CORE Demonstration On Broadway

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...

African American Soldier Reads Segregated Terminal Sign

Group of school children posing in front of a school bus in Calhoun County in South Carolina in the 1950s.

School children standing in front of school bus

Restaurant with Sign "We Cater to White Trade Only", Lancaster Ohio, USA, Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration, August 1938.

Restaurant with Sign "We Cater to White Trade Only", Lancaster Ohio, USA, Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration, August 1938

Jim Crowism: Drinking fountain for colored men in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. Photograph, 1939. Original Caption

Man Drinking at Segregated Drinking Fountain

Main street. Gibson, California. Artist Dorothea Lange.

Hotel Clark with Sign "The Best Service for Colored Only", Beale Street Lined with Pawn Shops and Secondhand Clothing Stores, Memphis, Tennessee,...

Hotel Clark with Sign "The Best Service for Colored Only", Beale Street Lined with Pawn Shops and Secondhand Clothing Stores, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, October 1939

Passenger points to one of the segregation signs removed from all Dallas Transit Company buses, following a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation...

Dallas Texas Segregation Signs Down

Procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.

Civil Rights March in DC

Ku Klux Klan parade, DC

Ku Klux Klan parade, DC

New Orleans, LA: Entrance to New Orleans Parish Prison, showing segregated visiting periods. Undated photograph.

Segregation Sign At New Orleans Prison

Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U. S. Supreme Court Building, after the High Tribunal ruled...

Victors in Brown vs. Board of Education

usa, kansas, topeka, white and colored segregation signs - american segregation stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

USA, Kansas, Topeka, White and Colored segregation signs

Moving billboard in a parade in Detroit, sponsored by the NAACP, congratulates the American Federation of Labor's stand against race discrimination.

NAACP Moving Billboard

Washington, DC, March 1942. A group of students at a Negro high school buying and selling defense stamps.

Buying Defense Stamps

William Gordon , managing editor of the African American newspaper Atlantic Daily World, and pressman Kimber Boddie check a copy of the Memphis World...

Journalists Reading Newspapers

To the soft beat of muffled drums, protesters march down San Francisco's Market Street carrying posters and four coffins symbolizing four Black men...

Marchers Protest Georgia Lynchings

Police arresting an African American at the Sojourner Truth Homes, a federal government housing project. White residents caused a riot when they...

Arrest During Sojourner Truth Homes Riot

Night school students at segregated Frederick Douglass High School, Baltimore, Maryland, February 20, 1943.

Night School Students

Group of people in an area designated as the 'Colored Section', USA, circa 1950.

Colored Section

Sign in Jackson, Mississippi which reads 'Waiting Room For Colored Only by order Police Dept.', 25th May 1961.

An African-American man drinking at a segregated drinking fountain in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Segregated Fountain

People holding signs and American flags protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol

Bus Station with Sign "Colored Waiting Room", Durham, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, Office of War Information, May 1940.

Bus Station with Sign "Colored Waiting Room", Durham, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, Office of War Information, May 1940

African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in...

Lunch Counter Protest in North Carolina

Demonstrators picket in front of a school board office protesting segregation of students.

Civil Rights Rally

Sign outside an American restaurant points to the 'White Rest Rooms', in a clear indication of racial segregation, circa 1960.

White Rest Rooms

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...

Civil Rights Sit-In

Overcrowded Classroom due to enlargement of Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S....

Overcrowded Classroom due to enlargement of Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, April 1941

Women at William Franz Elementary School yell at police officers during a protest against desegregation at the school, as three black youngsters...

Teens Shout At Police Officers During Protest

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...

People Picketing a Church

White segregationist demonstrators protesting at the admission of the Little Rock Nine, to Central High School, 1959. The Little Rock Nine were a...

White segregationist demonstrators protesting at the admission of the Little Rock Nine, to Central High School, 1959. The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrol

View of crowds at an annual barbecue given on the plantation of FM Gay, Alabama, 1930s. The crowds are segregated.

FM Gay's Plantation

Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley, U.S. Office of War Information, September 1943.

Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley, U.S. Office of War Information, September 1943

Colored People Not Allowed on This Line, 1863. Private Collection. Artist : Brown, John George .

Colored People Not Allowed on This Line, 1863

Activist Doris Castle is directed away from the 'white waiting room' at Jackson, Mississippi, 25th May 1961. She has arrived on the 'Freedom Bus' to...

Separate Waiting

Example of racial discrimination, "Dining Room White Only" sign posted outside a restaurant, circa 1955.

Segregated Dining Room

Man Drinking Water at "Colored" Water Cooler in Bus Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1939.

Man Drinking Water at "Colored" Water Cooler in Bus Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1939

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