Mansfield segregated water fountain
Item
Title
Mansfield segregated water fountain
Description
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.
Subject
A boy drinks from a segregated water fountain at a gas station in Mansfield on August 2, 1956.
Source
Courtesy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Arlington, Texas
Date
1956-08-02