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A sign indicating that it is illegal for any other race besides whites to be in city limits after dark.

A sign in Detroit, Michigan created by white community member in an attempt to prevent African Americans from moving into the community.

A band playing in the street

This is a photograph of a young woman at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963.

This newspaper article is one written at the time the rice riots were happening in Forsyth county and detail its expulsion of African Americans in the county

This book is one of the sources African Americans had available to explicitly tell them what towns/counties they could or couldn't stay in over night.

Photo taken 10/2/1912. Although not identified by the newspaper they are believed to be: (Left to Right) Trussie (Jane) Daniel, Oscar Daniel, Tony Howell (defendant in Ellen Gracie rape), Ed Collins (witness), Isaiah Pirkle (witness for Howell), and…

Klan members gather in Washington, D.C. for a parade

An article detailing Governor Brown sending militia troops to Cumming to quell the race riots happening

Here the Works Progress Administration (WPA) has a large number of workers who assist in occupational and recreational therapy for patients of the hospital. Photo shows Works Progress Administration women attendants assisting in occupational therapy…