Mansfield segregated water fountain
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Title
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Mansfield segregated water fountain
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Description
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This photo - taken the month of the Mansfield desegregation crisis in 1956 - depicts a microcosm of Jim Crow-era segregation. In addition to separate water fountains, blacks and whites were separated in bus seating, theater seating, restaurants, health care, housing and in other everyday activities across the South.
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Subject
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A boy drinks from a segregated water fountain at a gas station in Mansfield on August 2, 1956.
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Source
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Courtesy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Arlington, Texas
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Date
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1956-08-02
