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Box R.01

 Container

Contains 119 Results:

Racial Prejudice, 1917-1960s

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Stories documented in the racial prejudice files describe the way Jim Crow racial segregation was enforced, imposed, and fought in specific instances and varying contexts. Types of documents include photographs, legal documents, reports, letters, press releases, publications, draft articles, clippings, transcripts and writings. The majority of material in this group of folders dates from the 1920s through the 1940s.

Dates: 1917-1960s

Racial Prejudice - Buses, 1920s-1940s

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

See Legal-sized folder for notes listing cases of people ejected from buses, arrested, or assaulted on buses between 1941-1945. Also includes articles about racial segregation on trains.

Dates: 1920s-1940s

Racial Prejudice - Buses - Interstate, 1929-1950s

 File — Box: R.01
Scope and Contents

Includes a 1929 Schedule for RF&P Transportation Company

Dates: 1929-1950s