Does Discriminate

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Does Discriminate - National Negro Congress Citizen's Civics Affairs Committee, First Black women to picket chain for jobs, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 116. A black-and-white photograph of two girls protesting in front of an F. W. Woolworth's store. The pair wear signs announcing that "Woolworth refuses to hire Negro sale girls.".

Catalog date

1940s

Recorded places

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Labor; Photography; Race discrimination; Segregation; Urban life; Women

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