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Civil Rights Movement in Florida |
Sit-in at
Woolworth's lunch counter :
Tallahassee, Florida |
In 1954 the
Supreme Court unanimously decided that school segregation was unconstitutional.
The actual process of school desegregation continued into the early seventies.
These images
document civil rights protests to integrate buses, stores, theaters, and
beaches.
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Entrance to
a segregated railroad depot (1941) |
Woman by sign
blown down during hurricane : Virginia Beach, Florida (1950) |
Tallahassee
Democrat headline for segregation ban : Tallahassee, Florida (1954) |
Morris Thomas
defying segregated bus seating : Tallahassee, Florida (1956) |
African American
preachers who protested segregated bus seating : Tallahassee, Florida (1956) |
Gentlemen protesting
segregated bus seating : Tallahassee, Florida (1956) |
Civil rights
activists : Tallahassee, Florida (195-) |
Seth Gaines
and his taxi : Tallahassee, Florida (195-) |
N.A.A.C.P. Freedom
Bus and riders (195-) |
Boycott and
picketing of downtown stores : Tallahassee, Florida (1960) |
Boycott and
picketing of downtown stores : Tallahassee, Florida (1960) |
Florida A&M
University students on a protest march : Tallahassee, Florida (1960) |
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