HATTIESBURG, Miss. – An effort in Jones County, Mississippi, to relocate segregationist water fountains that were installed during the Jim Crow era was met with resistance from voters. A referendum ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this 1938 image, a Black boy uses a fountain marked 'colored' at a North Carolina county courthouse. Getty Images No one knows ...
The photo was from last week, but it could’ve been from 60 years ago. A water fountain with a big sign on top of it that said WHITE. It’s one of the signature images of the Jim Crow South — the ...
The signs taped above a pair of water fountains in a Cincinnati-area high school hallway were reminiscent of life under Jim Crow laws: "Whites only," the left one said; "Blacks only" read the one to ...
Ever take a walk through a cemetery and wonder about the names or words inscribed on the lichened stones? Governments come and gone, wars battled, plagues, famines, celebrations, joys, whole lives — ...
An effort to relocate Jones County water fountains that were installed during the Jim Crow era was met with resistance from voters. A referendum was placed on the ballot, asking Jones County voters ...
No one knows for certain when public facilities like bathrooms and drinking fountains were separated by race. But starting in the 1890s, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized ...