"Colored" Water Cooler, 1939

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"Colored" Water Cooler, 1939Man drinking from a segregated water cooler in an Oklahoma City street car terminal. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 1939. Photograph by Russell Lee. Copyprint. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (5)Digital ID # cph 3b27120Reproduction # LC-USZ62-80126

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Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina. Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED1938 Apr.

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In the above picture, taken in the 1930's, an African-American movie patron is climbing the stairs to the upper rear part of the theater where blacks were required to sit at that time.

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A Sign at the Greyhound Bus Station, Rome, GeorgiaEsther Bubley, photographer, September 1943.

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1) Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. May 1943.Arthur Siegel, photographer. "A drinking fountain." [Sign: "White."]

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Memphis, Tennessee. October 1939. Marion Post Wolcott, photographer. "Secondhand clothing stores and pawn shop on Beale Street."[Sign: "Hotel Clark, The Best Service for Colored Only."]

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Durham, North Carolina. May 1940. Jack Delano, photographer."A street scene near the bus station."

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Birney, Montana. August 1941.Marion Post Wolcott, photographer. "People who came to Saturday night dance around the bar."

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"Colored" Water Cooler, 1939