Colored Entrance to Terminal Station
Item
- Title
- Colored Entrance to Terminal Station
- Date Created
- 1956
- Creator
- Mooney, Jim
- Description
- The Terminal Station at 1400 Market St. opened in 1909 and closed in 1970. It later reopened as the Chattanooga Choo-Choo. African-Americans wishing to buy tickets had to enter through a separate door and wait in a segregated room. In 1962, the ICC ordered all segregation signs removed.
- Publisher
- Chattanooga Publishing Company
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. ; 1 neg. ;4 x 5 in.
- Collection
- Chattanooga Times Free Press photographs (Acc. 364)
- Subject
- Railroad stations -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga
- African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Tennessee
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Tennessee
- Tennessee -- Race relations
- Rights
- Copyright Undetermined
- Citation
- Chattanooga Times Free Press photographs (Acc. 364). Chattanooga Public Library.
- Source Material Note
- Original negative discarded due to condition.
- Identifier
- 00006618
- Type
- Still image
- Medium
- photographs
- Item sets
- Picture File
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