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Historic Architecture - Courthouses - Segregated drinking fountains – Antique Print

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Historic Architecture - Courthouses - Segregated drinking fountains. Historic image from the Courthouses collection.

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Few subjects in this collection are as specific as a pair of drinking fountains, and this image records one of the segregation-era fixtures that once stood in or near a courthouse. Fountains like these, usually marked "White" and "Colored," were a daily reminder of Jim Crow rules that governed public life in much of the American South from the late 1800s into the 1960s. Courthouses, as seats of local government, often enforced or displayed these divisions, which makes such details valuable to historians studying everyday segregation. Worth noticing are the separate labels and the way the fixtures were placed side by side, a deliberate arrangement meant to keep the races apart.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan3,229 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-197342

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