Dallas Public Library photos come primarily from the Marion Butts Collection

Additional photos credited as noted

Crowd stands in line to board a bus in the colored waiting room

Cooksie’s Cafe for Colored

S.R. Tankersley pickets Lincoln Theatre, December 1949

Bathroom sinks located outside at the segregated

Frederick Douglass Elementary, 1961

Restroom facility at the segregated Frederick Douglass Elementary, 1961

Children at

Junteenth Celebratio

n in Fair Park 1952

The State Fair of Texas designated one single day as “Negro Achievement Day”

Ad for “Negro Achievement

Day” at the State Fair of

Texas from the Dallas Express

1947

Dallas Public Library Collections

Carnival booth at the 1946 Texas State Fair

“Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair of Texas 1949 Miss Butler College, Pauline

Davis

Beauty contestants at the State Fair-

designated “Negro

Achievement Day,” October

1949.

Twins contest on “Negro Achievement Day” at the State Fair of Texas, October 1949

Youth Council of the NAACP protesting the State Fair of Texas, October 1955

Sign reads: “IT IS NO ACHIEVEMENT TO BE SEGREGATED AT THE FAIR. STAY OUT!!”

Dallas Public Library Juanita Craft Collection

Youth Council of the NAACP protesting the State Fair of Texas,

October 1955Juanita Craft Collection

Mrs. M.A. Flanagan protests

segregation at the State

Fair of Texas, October

1960. The Fair opened

more accommodations to African Americans in 1953, but did

not fully integrate

until 1967.

Negro History Week at Fair Park, 1966

“Negro Achievement

Day” at the State Fair ended in

1961.Full

desegregation occurred in

1967.

Dallas Public Library Juanita Craft Collection

The “Greensboro Four” sit in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina, February 1960

October 1960. Rev. E.W. Thomas & Rev. H. Rhett James fighting for integrated lunch counters at H.L.

Green’s, the building that now houses Neiman Marcus on Main Street.

Charlie Goff & E.L. Haywood picketing Skillern’s Drugstore, April 1963.

Registering to vote 1947

Line to vote at voting booth 1947

Voter registration at Mooreland YMCA, 1949

Voting during a DISD School Board election, May 1958

Community Leaders urge repeal of the poll tax, October 1963

Violence erupts when Alabama state troopers attempt to break up a civil rights voting march from Selma to Montgomery, March 7, 1963 photo by AP

The brutal beating of civil rights marcher on March 7, 1963, a day dubbed Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” photo by AP

March 1965. NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally passing the Alberta Hotel in Dallas.

Local demonstrators were showing support for the Selma to Montgomery marches and protesting the violence that occurred in

Alabama on “Bloody Sunday.”

NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally through downtown Dallas, March 1965

NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965

Demonstrators gathered at Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown

NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965

Demonstrators gathered at Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown

NAACP Alabama Sympathy March & Rally, March 1965Demonstrators gathered at

Ferris Plaza near Union Station in downtown

Clarence Laws,

Southwest Regional

Secretary of NAACP, after

encounter with police,

1964.

Sixth Floor Museum Collections

Clarence Broadnax outside the Picadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street, June 1964

Faculty, staff & students walk toward Bishop Chapel for a local memorial service honoring Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr., April 1968

March after the death of Santos Rodriguez erupted in violence in downtown Dallas, July 1973Dallas Mexican American

Heritage League

Sign from Montgomery, Alabama

Sign at the Dallas County

Records Building notes

the place on the wall where

traces of the “WHITE ONLY”

designation for the drinking

fountain remains visible.

Dallas County Records Building

Dallas County Records Building