Vintage photo of an African American Segregated class in the South
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Vintage Sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph showing all African American class with a white male and female teacher. Image is 6.5" x 5" and has 30 African American young students in 3rd grade are standing on the steps of the school entrance. The white teachers are standing on both side of the last row of students. This image is from a segregated class with only African American students. The kids seem to be wearing their best and clean outfits, but none seem to happy to be there. Verso has an original handwritten note: "Miss Karrine Kemp's, Third Grade, 1938" Segregation took de jure form with the passage of Jim Crow laws in the 19th century in the Southern United States where at the time 90% and more of African Americans lived. These laws were influenced by the history of slavery and discrimination in the US, and stated that schools must be separated by race but offer equal amenities; however, facilities and services were far from equal. At the time of this image, in the 1930s, members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) were looking for strategies to desegregate schools through lawsuits targeting the legal doctrine of “separate but equal.” However, not until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 did the US Supreme Court unanimously outlaw state-sanctioned school segregation, ruling it unconstitutional. The image is vintage and a small ink stain above the male teacher not affecting him or the African American students. otherwise very good condition.Item #15357
Price: $185.00
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