The Artdog Image(s) of Interest
All too many Americans can remember a time--not so long ago, and not so far away as to give us any comfort--when signs like these were posted to keep them out.
When public spaces like these were all too common.
When people accepted this as "normal." Even as "right."
We live today in an era of rising white supremacy groups. They would tear down the all-too-fragile gains we've made for equity, civil rights, and justice for all.
We must be vigilant. We must call out hate and bigotry wherever we see it. We must not let this kind of intolerance rise again.
IMAGES: Many thanks to Tes Blendspace for the composite of segregationist signs; to Georgetown Law's article "The Jim Crow South," for both the Imperial Laundry sign and the photo of "white" and "black" water fountains; and to DayOnePatch for the "No Spanish or Mexicans" sign. I also appreciate WGCU (Ft. Myers, FL PBS & NPR) for the photo of the segregated Ft. Myers bus, as well as an interesting interview with one of the Americans mentioned above, whose memories of the Jim Crow era are all too fresh; and the Wikimedia Commons for the 1937 Dorothea Lange photo of the Rex Theatre for Colored People in Leland, MS. For more such photos, visit the Library of Congress page on photos of signs enforcing racial discrimination.
All too many Americans can remember a time--not so long ago, and not so far away as to give us any comfort--when signs like these were posted to keep them out.
When public spaces like these were all too common.
When people accepted this as "normal." Even as "right."
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| Photo by Dorothea Lange, taken June, 1937 in Leland, Mississippi. |
We must be vigilant. We must call out hate and bigotry wherever we see it. We must not let this kind of intolerance rise again.
IMAGES: Many thanks to Tes Blendspace for the composite of segregationist signs; to Georgetown Law's article "The Jim Crow South," for both the Imperial Laundry sign and the photo of "white" and "black" water fountains; and to DayOnePatch for the "No Spanish or Mexicans" sign. I also appreciate WGCU (Ft. Myers, FL PBS & NPR) for the photo of the segregated Ft. Myers bus, as well as an interesting interview with one of the Americans mentioned above, whose memories of the Jim Crow era are all too fresh; and the Wikimedia Commons for the 1937 Dorothea Lange photo of the Rex Theatre for Colored People in Leland, MS. For more such photos, visit the Library of Congress page on photos of signs enforcing racial discrimination.
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