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Box R.01

 Container

Contains 119 Results:

Racial Prejudice - Parks, Pools and on Beaches, 1920s-1940s

 File — Box: R.01
Scope and Contents

Includes a 1929 letter from a D.C. committee signed by John A. Lankford, to U.S. Grant, 3rd, Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, requesting an equal golf facility for Black golfers in Washington D.C.

Dates: 1920s-1940s

Racial Prejudice - Radio, 1940s-1950s

 File — Box: R.01
Scope and Contents

See also: Racial Prejudice - U.S. - Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1940s-1950s

Racial Prejudice - Railroads, 1930s-1940s

 File — Box: R.01
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and notes regarding incidents of racial discrimination in rail travel, including 2 cases where AFRO employees were refused service, in 1940 at Savarin restaurant in Baltimore, and in 1944 on a Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad. Note on original folder reads "See also: Railroads (by companies); Afro litigation - Civil Rights Cases, Matthews, Scott, Jernigan"

Dates: 1930s-1940s