Dallas Public Library photos come primarily from the Marion Butts Collection
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Dallas Public Library photos come primarily from the Marion Butts Collection
Additional photos credited as noted
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Crowd stands in line to board a bus in the colored waiting room
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Cooksie’s Cafe for Colored
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S.R. Tankersley pickets Lincoln Theatre, December 1949
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Bathroom sinks located outside at the segregated
Frederick Douglass Elementary, 1961
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Restroom facility at the segregated Frederick Douglass Elementary, 1961
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Children at
Junteenth Celebratio
n in Fair Park 1952
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The State Fair of Texas designated one single day as “Negro Achievement Day”
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Ad for “Negro Achievement
Day” at the State Fair of
Texas from the Dallas Express
1947
Dallas Public Library Collections
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Carnival booth at the 1946 Texas State Fair
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“Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair of Texas 1949 Miss Butler College, Pauline
Davis
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Beauty contestants at the State Fair-
designated “Negro
Achievement Day,” October
1949.
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Twins contest on “Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair of Texas, October 1949
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Youth Council of the NAACP protesting the State Fair of Texas, October 1955
Sign reads: “IT IS NO ACHIEVEMENT TO BE SEGREGATED AT THE FAIR. STAY OUT!!”
Dallas Public Library Juanita Craft Collection
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Youth Council of the NAACP protesting the State Fair of Texas,
October 1955Juanita Craft Collection
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Mrs. M.A. Flanagan protests
segregation at the State
Fair of Texas, October
1960. The Fair opened
more accommodations to African Americans in 1953, but did
not fully integrate
until 1967.
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Negro History Week at Fair Park, 1966
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“Negro Achievement
Day” at the State Fair ended in
1961.Full
desegregation occurred in
1967.
Dallas Public Library Juanita Craft Collection
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The “Greensboro Four” sit in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina, February 1960
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October 1960. Rev. E.W. Thomas & Rev. H. Rhett James fighting for integrated lunch counters at H.L.
Green’s, the building that now houses Neiman Marcus on Main Street.
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Charlie Goff & E.L. Haywood picketing Skillern’s Drugstore, April 1963.
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Registering to vote 1947
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Line to vote at voting booth 1947
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Voter registration at Mooreland YMCA, 1949
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Voting during a DISD School Board election, May 1958
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Community Leaders urge repeal of the poll tax, October 1963
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Violence erupts when Alabama state troopers attempt to break up a civil rights voting march from Selma to Montgomery, March 7, 1963 photo by AP
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The brutal beating of civil rights marcher on March 7, 1963, a day dubbed Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” photo by AP
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March 1965. NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally passing the Alberta Hotel in Dallas.
Local demonstrators were showing support for the Selma to Montgomery marches and protesting the violence that occurred in
Alabama on “Bloody Sunday.”
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NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally through downtown Dallas, March 1965
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NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965
Demonstrators gathered at Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown
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NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965
Demonstrators gathered at Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown
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NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965Demonstrators gathered at
Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown
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Clarence Laws,
Southwest Regional
Secretary of NAACP, after
encounter with police,
1964.
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Sixth Floor Museum Collections
Clarence Broadnax outside the Picadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street, June 1964
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Faculty, staff & students walk toward Bishop Chapel for a local memorial service honoring Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., April 1968
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March after the death of Santos Rodriguez erupted in violence in downtown Dallas, July 1973Dallas Mexican American
Heritage League
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Sign from Montgomery, Alabama
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Sign at the Dallas County
Records Building notes
the place on the wall where
traces of the “WHITE ONLY”
designation for the drinking
fountain remains visible.
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Dallas County Records Building
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Dallas County Records Building