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An
African American
man climbs the stairs to a theater's "colored" entrance in
Belzoni, Mississippi
, in 1939. The door on the ground floor is labeled "white men only".
De jure
(legally enforced)
racial segregation in the United States
was eliminated by a series of
Supreme Court
decisions starting with
Brown v. Board of Education
in 1954.
Photo:
Marion Post Wolcott
; Restoration:
Lise Broer
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