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
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