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Dallas Public Library photos come primarily from the Marion Butts Collection Additional photos credited as noted. Crowd stands in line to board a bus in the colored waiting room. Cooksie’s Cafe for Colored. S.R. Tankersley pickets Lincoln Theatre, December 1949.
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Dallas Public Library photos come primarily from the Marion Butts Collection Additional photos credited as noted
Crowd stands in line to board a bus in the colored waiting room
Bathroom sinks located outside at the segregated Frederick Douglass Elementary, 1961
Restroom facility at the segregated Frederick Douglass Elementary, 1961
The State Fair of Texas designated one single day as “Negro Achievement Day”
Ad for “Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair of Texas from the Dallas Express 1947 Dallas Public Library Collections
“Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair of Texas 1949 Miss Butler College, Pauline Davis
Beauty contestants at the State Fair-designated “Negro Achievement Day,” October 1949.
Twins contest on “Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair of Texas, October 1949
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
Youth Council of the NAACP protesting the State Fair of Texas, October 1955 Juanita Craft Collection
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.
“Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair ended in 1961. Full desegregation occurred in 1967. Dallas Public Library Juanita Craft Collection
The “Greensboro Four” sit in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina, February 1960
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.
Charlie Goff & E.L. Haywood picketing Skillern’s Drugstore, April 1963.
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
The brutal beating of civil rights marcher on March 7, 1963, a day dubbed Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” photo by AP
March 1965. NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rallypassing 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.”
NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally through downtown Dallas, March 1965
NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965 Demonstrators gathered at Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown
NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965 Demonstrators gathered at Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown
NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965 Demonstrators gathered at Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown
Clarence Laws, Southwest Regional Secretary of NAACP, after encounter with police, 1964.
Clarence Broadnax outside the Picadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street, June 1964 Sixth Floor Museum Collections
Faculty, staff & students walk toward Bishop Chapel for a local memorial service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 1968
March after the death of Santos Rodriguez erupted in violence in downtown Dallas, July 1973 Dallas Mexican American Heritage League
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.