This image is a photograph titled "Rex Billiard Hall for Colored" taken by Marion Post Wolcott in October 1939. The scene is located on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It illustrates the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation in practice during the mid-20th century.
The original photograph is part of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information collection at the Library of Congress. Here it is 'colorized'.
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I'm sorry but I have to ask. Are you somehow arguing that the "separate but equal" doctrine was not bad?
ReplyDeleteYa, and the Wonder Bread ad is priceless!
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Sorry but the actions of today's blacks calls for caution. Even obama said he "crossed the street if he saw a black man." You can call it racism, I call it common sense.
ReplyDeleteAt night many people cross the street if we see a man--before we're close enough to see his color.
DeleteThe Replublicans won the war but the Democrats still ran the south.
ReplyDeleteand you get to thank democrats for it all. the kkk, the jim crow laws, the lynchings. all sponsored and instigated by southern democrats. they love that blacks and whites seem to have forgotten the actual history.
ReplyDeleteSins of our past?
ReplyDeleteStill going.
Look at today, black graduation, black student unions, miss black America, united negro college fund, affirmative action...
I'm telling ya, it just never gets any better!
Gimme a fuggin break. The crime stats clearly show that there is an excellent reason to keep the 2G's at bay FFS.
ReplyDeleteNice colored picture.
ReplyDeleteNo pictured of nice coloureds though, are there?
DeleteMy Dad had a model T, and when the "persons" would lay around the car, sitting on it, the car would shock the person, with the ignition coil being hooked up somehow.
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