Everyday Segregation
During the Jim Crow period, a black person might begin
a bus or train ride near the front,
but each time a white passenger boarded
the African American passenger had to move back a row.
An added indignity was that black passengers
were often the ones forced to carry and re-position the segregation sign.
This “For Colored Patrons Only” sign was taken
by a white woman from Michigan who was a visitor
in Louisiana in the 1920s.
She removed the sign because both the sign and segregation
offended her.
