Segregation in Dallas

Marion Butts CollectionDallas Public Library

1946Cooksie’s Café for Colored at the Powell Hotel

Date unknownColored Waiting Room - A crowd stands in line to board a bus.

Date UnknownA sign on a business window points to the “White” entrance.

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

1961

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

Oct. 17, 1961

Mrs. M. A. Flanagan protests segregation at the State Fair of Texas

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).

1946Ethel Ransom Memorial Hospital in Fort Worth

1946Homes in a Black neighborhood in Dallas.

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

Date UnknownMan on sidewalk, walking to 'colored balcony'

1947Knights of Pythias parade

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

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

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