COLORED ADMISSION
“In 1883, the Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1876 unconstitutional.”
W H I T E WA I T I N G R O O M
“The principle of “separate but equal,” America’s legal justification for domestic apartheid, was ordained by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896.
Systematically, the gains made towards a more equal society during Reconstruction were dismantled and replaced by a new system of injustice.”
WHITE
“The Jim Crow system of racial exploitation was, like slavery, both a caste/social order for regimenting cultural and political relations, and an economic structure that facilitated the super-exploitation of blacks’ labor power.”
COLORED
“Jim Crow laws “Jim Crow laws meant the meant the institutional institutional segregation of all segregation of all public and public and private facilities and private facilities and access to access to employment employment and and housing housing opportuniopportunities ties and resources. and resources.
W H I T E M E N COLORED M E N
“However, though facilities, schools, entrances to public transportation, housing, and social spaces remained separate, they were never of equal quality. In this system, access and quality were always substandard for people of color.�
W H I T E W O M E N COLORED
WOMEN
REX THEATRE FOR COLORED PEOPLE
“In 1964, President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, managed to persuade Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act.This made racial discrimination in public places, such as theaters, restaurants and hotels, illegal.”
This book is made to reveal the macrocosm that echoes the microcosm in regards to racial signage. It compares the simple text of a sign to images that resemble the meaning of the text. Although the images are small I hope you will take the time to notice them in each image. Edited by Hunter Murphy Quotes from Amistad Digital Resources: Jim Crow Laws Part 1.