- Collection:
- Civil Rights Movement in Virginia : An Exhibition on Display February 7 - June 19, 2004
- Title:
- Equal access to public accommodations
- Creator:
- Richmond Times-Dispatch
Valentine Richmond History Center - Date of Original:
- 2004
- Subject:
- African Americans--Segregation--Virginia
Civil rights movements--Virginia
African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia
Discrimination in public accommodations--Virginia
Segregation in transportation--Virginia - Location:
- United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
newspapers
online exhibitions - Type:
- StillImage
Text - Description:
- Section of online exhibit focusing on efforts to overcome discrimination in public accommodations ranging from the 1944 Irene Morgan court case against segregated seating on buses to the 1961 sit-ins and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The page includes ten black-and-white photographs and one newspaper article from the Virginia Historical Society, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the Valentine Richmond History Center.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://virginiahistory.org/learn/historical-book/chapter/equal-access-public-accommodations
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Movement in Virginia Collection (Virginia Historical Society)
- Contributing Institution:
- Virginia Historical Society
- Rights:
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