Segregation in Dallas

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Segregation in Dallas Marion Butts Collection Dallas Public Library

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Segregation in Dallas. Marion Butts Collection Dallas Public Library. 1946. Cooksie’s Café for Colored at the Powell Hotel. Date unknown. Colored Waiting Room - A crowd stands in line to board a bus. Date Unknown. A sign on a business window points to the “White” entrance. 1949. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Segregation in Dallas

Marion Butts CollectionDallas Public Library

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1949S.R. Tankersley of the Negro Moving Picture Machine Operators Union, Local 249-A, pickets in front of the Lincoln Theater .

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1961

Toilet facilities at the Frederick Douglass Elementary School – an all Black school.

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1967View of the exhibit 'The Negro in American History', a booth depicting African American achievements from 1492 - 1967 (created by Harold Lang, principal of N.W. Harllee Elementary School).

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1946Ethel Ransom Memorial Hospital in Fort Worth

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September, 1947Slum homes in the Roosevelt Addition of West Dallas in the aftermath of flooding from the Trinity River

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Oct 22,1960 Protesters, including Dallas ministers Rev. E.W. Thomas and Rev. H. Rhett James, in front of H.L. Green's fighting for integrated lunch counters

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March 24, 1947Dallas Police Department's first African American officers, Lee Brotherton and B.J. Thomas

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1952T. Bone Walker golfing at Hilliard Golf Course for blacks