- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Bus Station Sign
- Contributor to Resource:
- Photograph by Wikimedia
- Date of Original:
- 1943
- Subject:
- Signs and signboards--Georgia--Rome
Civil rights--Georgia--Rome
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Rome
Bus terminals--Georgia--Rome
Blacks--Segregation--Georgia--Rome
Buildings--Georgia--Rome
Rome (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A sign, pictured in 1943, indicates separate facilities for Black customers at a bus station in Rome. Segregation of Blacks and whites became a common occurence in the South with the rise of Jim Crow laws in the 1890s.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/heart-of-atlanta-motel-v-united-states-1964/colored-waiting-room-sign_001-2/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
-
