On View

Segregation Gallery

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Objects in this Location

Exhibition

Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968

Created by

Unidentified

Date

ca.1957

Medium

plywood and paint

Dimensions

7 3/8 x 74 7/8 x 1/2 in. (18.7 x 190.2 x 1.3 cm)

Description

This bus station waiting room sign, circa 1957, is from the Birmingham AL, Greyhound Bus Station. It is a standard train or bus station sign from a southern state prior to 1964 restricting the seating of non-white passengers. The sign consists of a piece of plywood painted white with black stenciled text that reads: [ WAITING ROOM / (INTERSTATE AND WHITE INTRASTATE PASSENGERS) ]. The lower right hand corner of the sign has been splintered off.

Place used

Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Classification

Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements

Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Type

signs

Topic

Civil rights

Race relations

Segregation

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA in honor of Dr. James Farmer

Object number

2011.130

Restrictions & Rights

No Known Copyright Restrictions

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GUID

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd53463f6fe-14fa-4109-95bb-1f69ddb39588