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A year after the Bolling v. Sharpe decision that ended District of Columbia school segregation, an integrated group of students is shown at the Barnard School May 27, 1955.
The suit was brought by the Consolidated Parents Group, composed of working class African Americans living east of the Anacostia River.
The Group waged a seven-year fight beginning in 1947 to improve conditions for African Americans that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road and ended with the Court’s school desegregation order.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/564wW3
Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
Photo by Thomas J. O’Lalloran. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
This Virginia Department of Historic Resources historical highway marker E-231 is in front of the Rowser Building at 1739 Jeff Davis Highway in Stafford County. The Marker reads,
"Stafford Training School, later known as H. H. Poole School, was constructed in 1939 by the Public Works Administration after African American parents raised money to buy the land. During the segregation era, this was the only school in Stafford County offering black students an education beyond seventh grade. After an earlier attempt failed, two young students from this school, Doretha and Cynthia Montague, successfully entered the all-white Stafford Elementary School on 5 September 1961, seven years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision ruled school segregation unconstitutional. Thereafter school systems in the Fredericksburg region desegregated."
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。
This hole-puncher, which is located at the rear door of this bus, is for women to use when they board the sex-segregated bus lines. It works on the honor system -- the women are supposed to punch their own ride cards. Without getting into the question of how many free rides the Egged bus company -- which is public, not privately owned -- is giving out in this way, what does a woman do if she doesn't have a ride card and needs a transfer?
A few miles from the Tule Lake Segregation (internment) camp, Camp Tulelake was first built as a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. During WWII, the camp was used to imprison several hundred Japanese American men who protested and refused to answer the loyalty questionnaire. It was used again to house Japanese American strikebreakers brought in from other internment camps to harvest the crops that Tule Lake strikers were leveraging to demand better living and working conditions. Between 1944 and 1946 the camp housed German and Italian Prisoners of War who worked for local farmers.
www.visitsiskiyou.org/culturehistorical/wwii-valor-in-the...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams Visits former Colored School #4 in Chelsea on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Reflections in Black and White exhibit - Cape Fear Museum - January 30, 2017 - New Hanover County, NC
Reflections in Black and White, features a selection of informal black and white photographs taken by black and white Wilmingtonians after World War II before the Civil Rights movement helped end legalized segregation. Visitors will have a chance to compare black and white experiences and reflect on what people’s lives were like in the region during the latter part of the Jim Crow era.
Examine mid-century cameras and photographic equipment and experience the “thrill” of opening a replica camera store photo envelope, a rare experience in today’s digital world. Flip through some recreated pages from Claude Howell’s scrapbooks, and take your own photograph in a 1950s setting.
Reflections in Black and White features selections from four large photographic collections:
•African American photographer Herbert Howard was a postal worker, a member of the NAACP, and a semi-professional photographer. Cape Fear Museum has a collection of more than 1,000 images he took documenting Wilmington’s black community.
•Artist Claude Howell left an extensive collection of scrapbooks to the Museum. The albums include hundreds of pages with photographs of Howell’s friends, local scenery, and people.
•Student nurse Elizabeth Ashworth attended the James Walker Memorial Hospital School of Nursing right after World War II. Her photographs provide a glimpse of a group of young white women’s lives in the late 1940s.
•In 2012, the Museum acquired a collection of photos that were taken in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and left at the Camera Shop, a downtown business that was a fixture from the late 1910s through the early 1980s.
Historian Jan Davidson explained why the concept behind the exhibit: “The different historical images speak to each other in some fascinating ways. Most of us can see our own lives reflected in the images, We all eat, hang out with friends, and many of us have taken silly pictures of ourselves or our loved ones. These images show our common humanity, and allow us to relate to people in the past as we might relate to a friend.”
Cape Fear Museum hopes the exhibit will spark reflection and conversation about the history of race relations. Davidson states, “When you look at these images as a group, they give us a chance to reflect on how legally-sanctioned racial segregation helped shape people’s daily lives. We want today’s visitors to have a chance to imagine what it felt like to live in a world where Jim Crow laws and attitudes deeply affected the textures of daily life.”
See more at: www.capefearmuseum.com/
Photo by Brett Cottrell, New Hanover County
Leonard C. Farrar is shown in a portrait photograph circa 1900.
Farrar grew up in Charleston, W. Va. and taught in the schools there from 1901-1914 after college at Ohio University and West Virginia Collegiate Institute.
After an interlude where he worked for the state of West Virginia and a railway company, he resumed teaching in 1918. In 1922, he became head of the public school in Omar in Logan County, W. Va.
With education as his vocation and passion, he went on to become president of the National Forum Association in Washington, D.C.
The group sought the establishment of an educational forum in every community. He believed that the permanent progress of African Americans must rest on patriotism, education and thrift. He is quoted as saying, "no educated, thrifty people can be long oppressed." He was an advocate of tripartite education of the head, the heart and the hands.
While in Washington, D.C. he took part in the effort to abolish Jim Crow in the U.S. Capitol restaurants in 1934.
He took part in direct action, joining one of a series of small interracial groups that sought service in the restaurants that were barring African Americans. While some groups were successful, the group of five—two African American and three white--Farrar was in was not.
Farrar also hosted a forum on the Capitol campaign where luminaries such as Charles Russell addressed an audience urging them to continue the fight.
The effort at the Capitol building was ultimately unsuccessful, but represented the first ongoing, organized use of the sit-in tactic that would later be refined and utilized to desegregate public facilities in 1960.
For a detailed blog post on the fight against Jim Crow in the U.S. Capitol restaurants, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/origins-of-the-c...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmcArGZz
The photographer is unknown. Photo courtesy of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.
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... I look forward to reading them!
Entrance of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. A stark reminder of past segregation!
An undated photograph of Charles Lee Underhill circa 1920.
Charles Lee Underhill was a Republican United States Representative from Massachusetts serving from 1921-33.
He was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867 and moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his parents, who settled in Somerville.
Underhill served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1902-1903 and 1908-1913), and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918.
While in the U.S. House of Representatives he served as chairman of Committee on Claims and the Committee on Accounts
After he declined to run for re-election he engaged in real estate development in Washington, D.C. from 1933 until he retired in 1941.
As former chair of the Accounts Committee Underhill testified on the history of the House of Representatives public restaurant and the committee in 1934 before a special committee investigating Jim Crow at the House restaurant.
He gave the history of the Committee before offering his own views that “colored people prefer segregation.”
He testified that the issue of race had never come up in his tenure except when Rep. Oscar DePriest (R-Il.) brought an interracial group into the restaurant and it was suggested to him that this was improper. He testified that it never happened again.
For a detailed blog post on the fight against Jim Crow at the U.S. Capitol’s restaurants, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/origins-of-the-c...
For related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmcArGZz
The photographer is unknown. The image is a Harris and Ewing photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-20003 (digital file from original negative)
Source:
picryl.com/media/james-merediths-letter-to-the-registrar-...
“James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement). Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans. The admission of Meredith ignited the Ole Miss riot of 1962 where Meredith's life was threatened and 31,000 American servicemen were required to quell the violence – the largest ever invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807. “
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith
Here are a few other excellent resources:
50years.olemiss.edu/james-meredith/
www.history.com/topics/black-history/ole-miss-integration
npg.si.edu/blog/september-30-1962-james-meredith-universi...
Only to get through all these straws I ended up with. I've decided to document my consumer disgust in response to raindogs photo of a half filled pie.
I went to Sainsburies in Uxbridge to do some shopping (where I had to pay £2 to park in their car park by the way! You can get a refund if you manage to remember by the time you get to the checkout). I wanted four straws for some cocktails I planned to make. I had to buy 225 of them!
Disgraceful!
Source: Greater Fort Worth Civil Liberties Union Records [AR108-15-8, scan 10011983]
This “No Trespassing- Keep Out” sign, pictured here circa 1969, was posted on the “Ridglea Wall,” a chain link and concrete block fence, 11 blocks long, built in the 1940s to separate the mostly Caucasian Ridglea neighborhood from the mostly African-American Como neighborhood. For years, the wall stood as both a physical and symbolic barrier. In the early 1970s, members of the Greater Fort Worth chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union worked to remove sections of the wall, extend roadways, and add paved pedestrian walkways through the fence to create additional connections between Como and the Ridglea and Arlington Heights areas.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a minister and activist who fought to end racial discrimination and segregation in the United States. On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill commemorating Dr. King’s birthday as a federal holiday on the third Monday in January. First observed in 1986, it was not until 2000 that all 50 states officially observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The University of Texas at Arlington Library offers a rich and diverse collection of materials on the history of Texas and the Southwest. Each week, readers get a glimpse of the past with an image from Special Collections. (817) 272-3393; library.uta.edu/special-collections
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 Jessie Regot, L&C Media Services Intern
Street scene in St. Paul's Bottoms. The Majestic Cafe, the New Way Cafe, and the Rainbow Cafe all on the right. North Side Drug on the corner. The smokestacks in the background are Southwestern Power & Light Company. Note two-story homes on far left.
May 15, 1963. Coll. 393, Jacket 29924.
School Street's pedestrian environment was partially reconstructed in Spring 2011; yet, this major bus stop intersection right next to Somerville's City Hall at 93 Highland Ave., was not included in the scope of work.
School Street was also reconstructed in 2005, according to City Reconstruction records (which were removed from the City's homepage web links in 2011).
Hard to tell if these are new buildings or updated barracks from the detention center. Hard to imagine they'd go to all that work to put siding on such crappy little buildings, but they are in the right place and about the right dimensions. From the map, this is probably the grounds of the municipal airport, but that's another mystery -- why would such a small facility need all this housing? We didn't have much time to explore the new national monument, which is adjacent to this property, and there isn't really that much information to be had, so we get to puzzle about it, I guess.
I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions. I look forward to reading them!
Put up barely six months ago (July 2009), it depicts places around the world where walls are used to keep people at bay, including Israel and Berlin, among others.
Belfast, Northern Ireland.
I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions. I look forward to reading them!
This yard sign was placed in the front yards of African American families receiving loans from the Black owned Washington Shores Federal Savings and Loan Association in Orlando. The Washington Shores Federal Savings and Loan was the first of it's kind and enabled African American families to buy homes when the other banks would not give them credit or business loans.
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。
I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions. I look forward to reading them!
The May 18, 1954 Washington Post leads with the U.S. Supreme Court decisions that outlawed school segregation, including the Bolling v. Sharpe decision that ended Jim Crow in District of Columbia public schools.
The impetus for the Bolling decision began in 1947 when the Consolidated Parents Group led a boycott of deplorable conditions at the segregated Browne Junior High School on Benning Road NE.
The subsequent events gave rise the Bolling v. Sharpe suit that broke new ground in interpreting the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and the meaning of “due process.” The other major cases were decided on the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause.
Bolling v. Sharpe was the only major school case that was brought outside the NAACP team and argued without their assistance.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/m2x047
Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
Street scene in St. Paul's Bottoms. The Majestic Cafe, the New Way Cafe, and the Rainbow Cafe all on the right. North Side Drug on the corner. The smokestacks in the background are Southwestern Power & Light Company.
May 15, 1963. Coll. 393, Jacket 29924.
We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West: Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
From Inaugural Address of President Barak Obama