Segregation in Dallas
Marion Butts Collection
Dallas Public Library
1946
Cooksie’s Café for Colored at the Powell Hotel
Date unknown
Colored Waiting Room - A crowd stands in line to board a bus.
Date Unknown
A sign on a business window points to the “White” entrance.
1949
S.R. Tankersley of the Negro Moving Picture Machine Operators
Union, Local 249-A, pickets in front of the Lincoln Theater .
1961
Toilet facilities at the Frederick Douglass Elementary School – an
all Black school.
Oct. 17, 1961
Mrs. M. A. Flanagan protests segregation at the State Fair of Texas
1967
View of the exhibit 'The Negro in American History', a booth
depicting African American achievements from 1492 - 1967
(created by Harold Lang, principal of N.W. Harllee Elementary
School).
1946
Ethel Ransom Memorial Hospital in Fort Worth
1946
Homes in a Black neighborhood in Dallas.
September, 1947
Slum homes in the Roosevelt Addition of West Dallas in the
aftermath of flooding from the Trinity River
Date Unknown
Man on sidewalk, walking to 'colored balcony'
1947
Knights of Pythias parade
Oct 22,1960
Protesters, including Dallas ministers Rev. E.W. Thomas and Rev.
H. Rhett James, in front of H.L. Green's fighting for integrated lunch
counters
March 24, 1947
Dallas Police Department's first African American officers, Lee
Brotherton and B.J. Thomas
1952
T. Bone Walker golfing at Hilliard Golf Course for blacks