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Facts on Housing for Negros Flyer, 1966. Park Hill neighborhood, Denver, Colorado.
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Amazing granular segregation driven by wave action on a beach in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. The dark and light sands likely have different sizes and compositions. The black sand is probably dense volcanic stuff, while the light component is normal beach sand. I wish I had taken a sample.
This is one of the small beaches on the south side of Pigeon Island, near the snuba dock.
Red Rooster Club at the cornder of Douglas and Fannin in St. Paul's Bottoms area of Shreveport, Louisiana, May 15, 1963. Coll. 393, Jacket 29924.
Charles Cassell grew up in Washington, D.C., and says his parents tried to protect him from the pain of segregation.
The Magnolia/Mobil gas station, which facilitated the role of the press in covering the events, as it had the only payphone in the area.
The events of 1957, as summarized in the museum across the street from the school: "On the morning of September 4, 1957, the Arkansas National Guard blocked nine African-American students from entering Little Rock Central High School. Two weeks later, a federal judge ruled that Governor Orval Faubus had illegally used the Guard to defy the U.S. Supreme Court's "Brown v. Board of Education" decision that school segregation was unconstitutional. Faubus removed the guardmen, but when the Little Rock Nine entered the school for the first time, segregationists outside grew violent. With the Little Rock police unable to ensure their safety, the students were forced to leave. The next day President Dwight D. Eisenhower backed the Supreme Court's constitutional authority by calling out the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne division. On September 25, soldiers escorted the teenagers into the school."
December 2019.
Williston Senior High School yearbook, 1960
Booker T. Washington served as Williston’s principal from 1951 to 1968.
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Museum purchase
Cyrus likes to eat his food separately. I didn't notice this until he started complaining a little bit when I made stuffed peppers (the rice, cheese and meat are mixed together!) and that time I made a baked goat cheese salad and he ate the goat cheese separate from the rest of the salad.
As a joke, Regan bought him 2 of these cafeteria style trays last year. He finally used one last night, and I had to document it.
L&C unveiled and dedicated a historical marker honoring education champion Scott Bibb, who fought against segregated schools in Alton from 1897-1908, on June 19, 2017 in front of the Scott Bibb Center in Alton. Photo by Laura Inlow, L&C Media Services
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external harddrive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... They are happily appreciated!
There is a TV drama forthcoming on WowWow TV on racial discrimination, segregation versus integration issues. Here is a collection of cast members taken in between production shooting. It was perfect weather as well being an unusually warm day (19ºC) for early February. Every one seemed to enjoy themselves, except there was a lot of excess standing, so our legs became quite tired and sore.
Shoot location was Showa Memorial Park near Nishi Tachikawa Station, Tokyo, Japan. Anyone who is a subscriber to Wow Wow and is interested in viewing the movie, please send me a personal message. Cheers…..
本日のプロダクションは人種差別の主テーマとしてWowWowテレビで近い将来に放映する予定です。この写真集は撮影ロケでその番組のキャストメンバーです。天気も最適で最高でした。19ºCは２月の昇順ごろとしてとても例外的です。皆さんは楽しんでいましたが立つことはかなりありましてメンバーの一部の足み疲れてきて痛くなりました。
撮影ロケは西立川の昭和記念公園です。その番組予定の詳細を知りたい場合はメッセージを送って下さい。
John Vachon
Although there was improvement in racial equality over all, there was still no end to segregation or discrimination, especially in the city. Atlanta for instance, was one of the most know areas in the nation when it came to racial disturbances. This is partly due to the elites desire to keep the economic system at the status quo and electing Eugene Talmadge as Governor. Talmadge was well liked by those who were benefiting from an economic system which took advantage of blacks and other minorities by paying them low wages. This was the way it had always been done. The New Deal in opposition was designed to help the very people the elites wanted to keep down and was seen as a threat to their lifestyle. In response, they elected Talmadge who drove hard against accepting the New Deal Programs which eventually became as powerful as the state government. In response, local officials in charge of relief often found excuses to give blacks less in the way of relief. A few years later, an excuse was found to clear a large African American neighborhood in order to push blacks toward and contain them within a certain area in the city. The excuse used was that the neighborhood was a slum and unattractive, especially as close as it was to the upscale shopping area downtown. After the the slums were removed though, nice apartments were built for the elite whites. These as well as the fear and panic about the unstable economy and the lack of jobs in the city all contributed to further segregation and discrimination in the city of Atlanta, and certainly in other cities.
Ferguson, Karen. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Chapel Hill and London, 2002.
A poster series [1 of 4] dedicated to the deterioration of a conformed society of the 1950s, events that would precede the turbulent 60s.
1956: Civil Rights // The Montgomery Bus Desegregation
November 15, 1956, almost a year after the boycott had begun, the Supreme Court judged the Montgomery bus-segregation law to be unconstitutional. On December 21, the city prepared to desegregate its buses.
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia – March 21, 1955, New York, New York) was a civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for almost a quarter of a century and directed a broad program of legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement. He was also a journalist, novelist, and essayist. He graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 (now Clark Atlanta University). In 1918 he joined the small national staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York at the invitation of James Weldon Johnson, where he acted as Johnson's assistant national secretary. White later succeeded Johnson as the head of the NAACP, serving from 1931 to 1955.
White oversaw the plans and organizational structure of the fight against public segregation. Under his leadership, the NAACP set up the Legal Defense Fund, which raised numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes. Among these was the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregated education was inherently unequal. White was the virtual author of President Truman's presidential order desegregating the armed forces after the Second World War. White also quintupled NAACP membership to nearly 500,000.
White was the fourth of seven children born in Atlanta to George W. White and Madeline Harrison. They belonged to the influential First Congregational Church, founded after the Civil War by freedmen and the American Missionary Association, based in the North. Among the new middle class of blacks, both of the Whites ensured that Walter and each of their children got an education. When White was born, George had graduated from Atlanta University and was a postal worker. Madeline had graduated from Clark University and became a teacher.
Of mixed race with African and European ancestry, White's appearance showed his high proportion of European ancestry. He emphasized in his autobiography, A Man Called White (p. 3): "I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me." Five of his great-great-great-grandparents were black and the other 27 were white.
All of his family were light-skinned, and his mother Madeline was also blue-eyed and blonde. Her maternal grandparents were Dilsia, a slave, and Dilsia's master William Henry Harrison, who much later became president of the United States.
Madeline's mother Marie Harrison was one of Dilsia's mixed-race daughters by Harrison, and her father Augustus Ware was a white man. Despite his family's ancestry being mostly white and himself being blond-haired, blue-eyed, and very fair, White and his family identified as black and lived among the Atlanta black community. In the earlier stages of his career White took advantage of his features to make investigations in the South, passing for white to gather informations more freely and protected on violations of civil and human rights such as lynchings and hate crimes in socially hostile environments.
Sinclair Lewis' 1947 novel, Kingsblood Royal, about a man who appears to be white but learns late in life that he is black, has characters based in part on White and his professional circles, many of whom were of mixed race and among the educated elites of black society, with relatives or friends who had chosen to live as white based on appearance. Lewis consulted White on the novel and White helped him meet numerous professional acquaintances. While some white critics found the novel contrived, the prominent African-American magazine Ebony named it the best novel of the year.
After graduating in 1916 from Atlanta University, a historically black college, White's first job was with the Standard Life Insurance Company, one of the new and most successful businesses started by African Americans in Atlanta. He also worked to organize an NAACP chapter in Atlanta; the organization had been set up several years before and White was supportive of their work. He and other leaders were successful in getting the Atlanta School Board to support improving education for black children. At the invitation of James Weldon Johnson, White moved to New York and in 1918 started working at the national headquarters of the NAACP.
One of the first riots he investigated was that of October 1919 in Elaine, Arkansas, where white vigilantes and Federal troops in Phillips County killed more than 200 black sharecroppers. The case had both labor and racial issues. The white militias had come to the town and hunted down blacks in retaliation for the killing of a white man. He was killed in a shootout at a church where black sharecroppers were meeting on issues related to organizing with an agrarian union.
White was granted credentials from the Chicago Daily News. That enabled him to obtain an interview with Governor Charles Hillman Brough of Arkansas, who would not have met with him as the representative of the NAACP. Brough gave White a letter of recommendation to help him meet people, and his autographed photograph. White was in Phillips County for only a brief time before his identity was discovered; he took the first train back to Little Rock. The conductor told him that he was leaving "just when the fun is going to start", because they had found out that there was a "damned yellow nigger down here passing for white and the boys are going to get him."[6] Asked what they would do to him, the conductor told White, "When they get through with him he won't pass for white no more!" "High yellow" was a term used at the time to refer to white-appearing blacks, mostly those of mixed-racial descent.
White published his findings about the riot and trial in the Daily News, the Chicago Defender and The Nation, as well as the NAACP's own magazine The Crisis. Governor Brough asked the United States Postal Service to prohibit the mailing of the Chicago Defender and Crisis to Arkansas, while others attempted to enjoin distribution of the Defender at the local level. The NAACP put together a legal defense of the men convicted and carried the case to the Supreme Court. Its ruling overturned the Elaine convictions and established important precedent about the conduct of trials. The Supreme Court found that the original trial was held under conditions that adversely affected the defendants' rights. Some of the courtroom audience were armed, as were a mob outside, so there was intimidation of the court and jury. The 79 black defendants had been quickly tried: 12 were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death; 67 were condemned to sentences from 20 years to life. No white man was prosecuted for the many black deaths.
Garnet C. Wilkinson, the longtime assistant superintendent in charge of the District of Columbia’s segregated public African American schools, is shown in a portrait circa 1950.
Wilkinson was in charge of the black segregated schools from 1921 until 1954 when the school system was integrated and he became an assistant superintendent in the merged schools.
Wilkinson became the first African American in charge of black schools in the District after the resignation of Roscoe Conkling Bruce in the wake of the 1919 Moens’ child abuse scandal when so-called professor Moens was revealed to be taking nude photographs of African American school children.
While in charge of black schools, Wilkinson developed them into some of the best in the nation.
However working class African American parents challenged the deplorable conditions of their schools in the city and Wilkinson became a target when he instituted a plan where students went to school at the Browne Junior High for half a day, later amending the plan to have students walk half a mile to annexes during their school day to sit in small elementary school desks with no equipment or recreational facilities.
Wilkinson remained on the hot seat until lawsuits arising out of the uproar settled the issue once and for all when the Supreme Court ruled in May 1954 that District of Columbia school segregation was illegal in the Bolling v. Sharpe case.
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Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
Photo by Scurlock Studios. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: Archives Center.
Bullers of Buchan, Aberdeenshire. Great views and very scenic, but with narrow paths and steep cliffs - defiitely not a place to take the kids.
A beautiful day, warm and sunny, with fantastic cloud formations.
"Little Journeys into Storyland" or Stories that will Live and Lift by Louis B. Reynolds and Charles L. Paddock. Copyrighted in 1947 by The Southern Publishing Association, apparently for segregated schools.
Street vendor Hop-on hop-off city buses along EDSA (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue) in Manila Philippines, merchandising citrus fruits. Side walk vendors and street vendors triples during the ber months and Holiday seasons that causes congestion and traffic in all major commercial areas in Metro Manila.
MMDA (Metropolitan Manila Development Authority) imposes yellow lane' rule, that designate loading and unloading zones with no more than 25 seconds to stay. Just recently a new Segregation Scheme will be implemented by December this year. Under the new scheme, buses are marked BUS A and BUS B and shall only upload and unload to its designated zone. Commuters will be able to reach his destination in shorter travel time and with fewer stops.
Girard College:
Following the Supreme Courts’ Brown v. Board decision ending de jure segregation in all public school systems, Philadelphia moved slowly to carry out the court’s ruling. In the public schools, several actions by the School Board including moving Northeast High School out of North Philadelphia, furthered segregation and limited opportunities for African-Americans children. In another public arena, the admissions policy of Girard College became one of the significant tests of school segregation in the City of Philadelphia.
In his will dated February 16, 1830, Stephen Girard, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, stipulated the establishment of a school for white males between six and eighteen years of age. Under the will, Girard having “sincerely at heart the welfare of the City of Philadelphia” left the principal part of his estate to “the Mayor, Alderman and citizens of Philadelphia, their successors and assigns” money for a number of charitable purposes of which the school was one. The purpose of these gifts was to foster “the prosperity of the City, and the health and comfort of its inhabitants.” At the time of Girard’s death, Philadelphia had fewer than 9,900 black inhabitants, who under then existing law had their citizenship rights decimated by regressive state legislation. In January 1848 the Girard College opened for the education of white male orphans.
Although not part of the Philadelphia public school system, Girard College was administrated by the Board of City Trusts on behalf of a public entity that is required to abide by federal laws. The first plaintiffs to seek admission at Girard College were represented by Raymond Pace Alexander, a distinguished African American attorney and member of Philadelphia City Council. They held that the College presented itself as an institution that was “municipal in nature”, namely a public boarding school or orphanage. They further asserted that because the State associated with the school, the College’s racial discrimination was unconstitutional.
Mayor Joseph Clark and City Council President James Finnegan, both ex-officio members of the Board of City Trusts, tried to persuade the Girard College board to admit the young men and seek a later decision by the courts. However, the other board members did not agree and maintained Girard’s will superseded as well as antedated both the Brown decision and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Lengthy litigation ensued through state and federal courts in Pennsylvania. By the mid-1960’s this dispute produced tremendous public agitation in the community and resulted in numerous civic demonstrations outside of the Girard College “wall”.
More than thirteen years after Brown, a final ruling and affirmation by the Supreme Court of the United States found that Girard’s will was superseded by the Brown decision. The school’s trustees were “permanently enjoined from denying admission of poor male orphans on the sole ground that they are not white, provided they are otherwise qualified for admission”. The first African American students were eventually granted admission to the school in 1968.
www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/6679/news
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external hard drive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... They are happily appreciated!
Enjoy!
"Little Journeys into Storyland" or Stories that will Live and Lift by Louis B. Reynolds and Charles L. Paddock. Copyrighted in 1947 by The Southern Publishing Association, apparently for segregated schools.
In 1921, the Napanaoch Reformatory was redesignated as an institution for “male defective delinquents.”
The Matteawan State Hospital and Prison, in Matteawan, New York, housed the criminally insane.
Dr. William Monroe Wells accounting books show his "Gross from Dances" at the South Street Casino. Two thirds of the way down the page there is a Cab Calloway entry.
This school was used back in the day for the residents of Eloy. Apparently Eloy was the first town in Arizona to desegregate, but this larger school house was for the whites and Mexican-Americans and the smaller school house was for the African-Americans. Even the brown people had to be separated, who knew.
The windows said a lot to me. You could still see light through the glass, but the opaqueness speaks to the history of this building.
Joan Sexton is knocked down and nearly trampled by a mounted police officer after a melee broke out during an attempt to integrate the Anacostia swimming pool June 29, 1949.
Members of the local Progressive Party youth group led the attempt to integrate the facility.
The confrontation took place when 10 white and 10 black members and supporters of the Young Progressives entered the pool. Later, about 70 African Americans arrived and entered the pool area while about 100 waiting white opponents began a scuffle. Scattered fighting broke out both inside and outside the facility between the groups.
A white woman was chased by about 50 white youths who believed she was a “Wallacite” One in the crowd yelled, “Go back to Russia, you dirty red.”
An African American boy was corned by a white mob and sustained cuts when he attempted to climb over a barbed wire fence. Fighting continued between the two groups outside the pool area while the numbers of participants grew to about 1,000.
Two white students distributing Young Progressive handbills in favor of integration were arrested along with two African Americans who were alleged to be fighting with whites. One white youth was arrested for fighting with one of the white Young Progressives distributing handbills.
Several others among the Progressives were injured, including one African American hit in the head with a stone and a white woman trampled by a police horse.
The pool was temporarily closed as result of the clashes. The Interior Department had been scheduled to transfer the six pools to the District’s recreation department, but held off because DC insisted on segregating pools by race.
DC finally integrated its parks and pools in 1954 in the wake of the Bolling v. Sharpe school decision. The Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public parks nationwide in 1958.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photo obtained via an Internet sale.
"Little Journeys into Storyland" or Stories that will Live and Lift by Louis B. Reynolds and Charles L. Paddock. Copyrighted in 1947 by The Southern Publishing Association, apparently for segregated schools.
C'è sempre qualcosa che ci separa, che ci divide dagli altri... a volte per colpa nostra che non alziamo gli occhi per vedere oltre quello che ci circonda... - There is always something that separates us, that divides us from the others... at times for guilt ours that we don't lift the eyes to see over what surrounds us... - Siempre hay algo que nos separa, que nos divide de los otros... a veces por culpa nuestro que no levantamos los ojos para ver más allá de lo que nos circunda...
March 17, 1950
Recently constructed replacement sits next to the old wooden structure of the original Fire Station 14. Fire Station 14 was an all black segregated company at the time this photo was taken. They utilized both houses for a short time before the old building was torn down. The lot was paved, a block wall erected to provide parking for the firefighter's personal vehicles.
Prior to World War II, when segregation divided Anglo and black residents in Dallas, African American commerce clustered in Deep Ellum. In the 1920s–30s, blues musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith and Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins played in the district's clubs. Today, there are a number of shops, live music venues and sidewalk cafés in this area, where colorful and innovative murals decorate many of the walls.
"Little Journeys into Storyland" or Stories that will Live and Lift by Louis B. Reynolds and Charles L. Paddock. Copyrighted in 1947 by The Southern Publishing Association, apparently for segregated schools.