South Greenville School, September 1, 1965
The Daily Reflector Image Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University
A new study of racial segregation in North Carolina shows that 30% of regular public schools are racially imbalanced, but 60% of charter schools are.
These findings echo the work of the UCLA Civil Rights Project, which has found that charter schools are frequently even more segregated than their surrounding district.
In Georgia, there are charter schools that are overwhelmingly white in districts where there are hardly any white students in the public schools. The Pataula Charter in Calhoun County is 75% white, but the local schools are only 2% white.
The first question is whether charter schools will become the new name for segregation academies?
The second question is why our society has turned its back on racial integration?
(Source: azspot)
Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina
April 1938
John Vachon, photographer
FSA/OWI Collection, Library of Congress
(Source: loc.gov)
Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in.
February 1942
Arthur S. Siegel, photographer
Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection
Separate and unequal
Public libraries in Greenville, North Carolina before integration.
Photos from The Daily Reflector (Greenville, NC)
Digital Collections, East Carolina University
Serving up barbeque in traditional paper tray, Adam Scott’s Place, Goldsboro, NC, August 1944. From Conservation and Development Department, Travel and Tourism Photo Files, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
Scott’s Famous Barbecue dates back to the 1920s, when a black minister named Adam Scott began selling his famous barbecue from his back door to black and white customers. People began eating in his yard and eventually moved to his porch. Mr. Scott fenced in the porch and called it a restaurant. But for black customers, the business continued to be take-out only, since blacks and whites could not dine together at restaurants.
When Mr. Scott’s son Martel took over the family business in the 1940s, the restaurant had two dining rooms, one for blacks and one for whites. The dining rooms began to merge in the 1960s, under pressure from the Federal Courts.
Margaret Crittenden Douglass.
Educational Laws of Virginia; The Personal Narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a Southern Woman, Who Was Imprisoned for One Month in the Common Jail of Norfolk, under the Laws of Virginia, for the Crime of Teaching Free Colored Children to Read.
Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1854.
When Cape Verdeans Maria Roderiques and Josefino Lopes Cabral were married in 1928 in Nantucket, MA, they had to settle for a rectory wedding. As people of color, they were not allowed to be married in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Isle Church. 24 years later, their daughter Norma married Albert Teixeira. Theirs was the first Cape Verdean wedding allowed in the Cathedral. (Source: Nantucket Historical Association)
Photograph of the Wonderland Theater, located on the corner of Pettigrew and Ramsey streets in Durham, NC. This theater, owned by “movie king” Frederick K. Watkins offered entertainment for Durham’s black residents.
Source:
Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Date: 1926
