Sign to Colored Waiting Room at Terminal Station
Item
- Title
- Sign to Colored Waiting Room at Terminal Station
- Date Created
- 1956
- Creator
- Mooney, Jim
- Description
- Terminal Station opened in 1909. African-Americans had to purchase tickets and await trains in separate areas. The ICC ordered all signs dealing with segregated bus/train terminals removed in 1962.
- Publisher
- Chattanooga Publishing Company
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
- Collection
- Chattanooga Times Free Press photographs (Acc. 364).
- Subject
- Tennessee -- Race relations
- Railroad stations -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga
- African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Tennessee
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Tennessee
- Rights
- Copyright Undetermined
- Citation
- Chattanooga Times Free Press photographs (Acc. 364). Chattanooga Public Library.
- Source Material Note
- Original negative discarded due to condition.
- Identifier
- 00006619
- Type
- Still image
- Medium
- photographs
- Item sets
- Picture File
Position: 165 (48 views)