Box R.01
Container
Contains 119 Results:
Race Track Officials
File — Multiple Containers
Found in:
Afro-American Newspapers Archives/Afro Charities
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AFRO Morgue Files
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General File
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R
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R - part 1
Racial Prejudice - Outside U.S. - Italy, 1927, 1938, undated
File — Box: R.01
Dates:
1927; 1938; undated
Racial Prejudice - Parks, Pools and on Beaches, 1920s-1940s
File — Box: R.01
Scope and Contents
Includes a 1929 letter from a D.C. committee signed by John A. Lankford, to U.S. Grant, 3rd, Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, requesting an equal golf facility for Black golfers in Washington D.C.
Dates:
1920s-1940s
Racial Prejudice - Radio, 1940s-1950s
File — Box: R.01
Scope and Contents
See also: Racial Prejudice - U.S. - Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1940s-1950s
Racial Prejudice - Railroads, 1930s-1940s
File — Box: R.01
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and notes regarding incidents of racial discrimination in rail travel, including 2 cases where AFRO employees were refused service, in 1940 at Savarin restaurant in Baltimore, and in 1944 on a Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad. Note on original folder reads "See also: Railroads (by companies); Afro litigation - Civil Rights Cases, Matthews, Scott, Jernigan"
Dates:
1930s-1940s