Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi (LOC)

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

1939 Oct.?

1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Digital file made from a modern print, not the original negative.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Subjects:
African Americans--Social life.
Motion picture theaters.
Segregation.
United States--Mississippi--Mississippi Delta--Belzoni.

Format: Nitrate negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12888

Call Number: LC-USF33- 030577-M2

Comments and faves

  1. bior, MzMullerz, Ssimkins, gwen, and 244 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Ciorra Photography (44 months ago | reply)

    Its difficult to comprehend times like this existed .

  3. Stefan Hoppe (44 months ago | reply)

    Very powerful image, more so now than when it was taken.

  4. stalzz64 (44 months ago | reply)

    One of the great American images. People wouldn't believe how segregated America really was, and not just down South, either. I love this photo even though it shows the racial bigotry of the time. It captures such an incredible light, it's amazing. I love vintage advertising, too.

  5. © noborders (44 months ago | reply)

    makes you think hard...

  6. rjones0856 (44 months ago | reply)

    Door under the stairs says "White Men Only."

    Wow.

  7. Back_yard (44 months ago | reply)

    let's not never forget were we have come from ..... what we did to our fellow humans.

  8. Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches (44 months ago | reply)

    Drinking a bite to eat, black men going in a special entrance dogs and cats sleeping with each other...

  9. Retired at last (44 months ago | reply)

    There's an entrance for "Coloreds" and one for "White Men", where did the women enter?

  10. ChinaCoop (42 months ago | reply)

    I love that ad. My granddad's furniture store in small town, Oklahoma has almost the same Dr. Pepper ad sponsoring his store.

  11. budderflyman (41 months ago | reply)

    There were separate sections of hospitals, hotels, restaurants, etc in the South even up unto about 1970. I saw "White" and "Colored" washroom signs in rubble of the old Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Tx in 1972 and I took them from the rubble and have kept them as reminders of how cruel this country can be.

  12. Smithsonian Institution (36 months ago | reply)

    Good morning,

    We published a blog post about a gallery created by a Flickr member using this photo. You can see it here - blog.photography.si.edu/2010/02/10/what%e2%80 %99s-not-to-...

    Best,

    Effie, the Smithsonian

  13. wiggiewormdog (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called sad world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  14. wiggiewormdog (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called soulful group, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  15. wiggiewormdog (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called a new world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  16. topkick9475 (35 months ago | reply)

    At the top of those stairs, to the left was a small concession stand. Pop corn 10 cents, coca cola 5 cents. I (Joe Abel, BHS '55) worked there while in high school.

  17. juan5731 Mopar 340 cu.in. Mamá ha muerto. (32 months ago | reply)

    Esto lo deberían conocer las actuales Generaciones.

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  19. artland (25 months ago | reply)

    Congratulations!
    This is a wonderful shot!
    You are invited to post it to:


    artland

  20. This photo was invited and added to the All People Are Equal group.

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  23. Backwardsboy (18 months ago | reply)

    Does anyone know which exact movie house this is? Or if it is no longer a movie house, where the building is?

  24. sage_sage1 (16 months ago | reply)

    The thumbnail shot drew me to this. It was even better when I saw the whole shot. What a shot.

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