- On View
- Segregation Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- before 1950
- Medium
- whitewash and paint on wood
- Dimensions
- H x W: 13 1/4 x 36 x 7/8 in. (33.7 x 91.4 x 2.2 cm)
- Description
- A hand painted wood segregation sign. The sign is painted with a whitewash background which has thinned with age. In large 3-1/2 inch hand painted lettering, in dark blue paint, the piece reads: [COLORED SECTION.] The board retains two pencil lines used to guide the lettering. The back has only the whitewash, now with a slight green hue from age. There are eye screws on the top and bottom of the sign.
- Place used
- Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Type
- signs
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2011.117.11.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




