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Belle Glade, Florida, 1941: Living quarters and "juke joint" for migratory workers. Local police wanted to make sure that only blacks frequeted this tavern and blues music hall. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.

The original Scotts Branch School, 1952: The Scotts Branch School in Summerton, a ten-room frame building, served the educational needs of black children from elementary through high school grades. School supplies were generally bought by the black students or their parents while similar needs within the white schools were underwritten by their respective boards of education. At that time, Clarendon County spent an average of $43 per year on the education of each black student and about three times that amount for each white child. Black children living in rural areas and not in proximity to available high schools were forced to walk to school daily if they wished to continue their education. In some instances families were fortunate enough to find accommodations for their children in the homes of black families living near the school. (Photo courtesy of J.A. DeLaine Jr.)

Children of segregation at a school water pump, early 1960s.

White school boys posing for a black photographer, 1953: "White boys at a Clarendon County school pose for me, after I stopped my car near their school. They rode in buses to modern, well-funded schools. A lightpole in the background illuminated a playing field for nighttime activities."--Cecil J. Williams

Colored waiting room, 1952. “Those signs in downtown Dallas, the signs over the water fountains and in the bus stations, came down in 1955 or ’56, and a couple of years later they began to adhere to the Supreme Court decision.”--R. C. Hickman
Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Medical Clinic, 1954. Left to right: Drs. Joseph Williams, Frank Jordan Sr., and E. Holmer Browne. “In the late 1940s black people were not admitted to the public hospitals in Dallas. So the black doctors created their own hospital.”--R. C. Hickman

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