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Sign used for segregating transportation terminal seating area

before 1950

Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America

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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.

A hand painted wood segregation sign. The sign is painted with a whitewash background which has thinned with age. The board is missing a piece at the bottom. The lettering is hand painted, in dark blue paint with the words: [PINE BLUFF] on the first line. The second line has lettering that has been broken off on the lower half. The words mostly likely are: [SECTION]. There are eye screws on the top of the sign.

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗

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Catalog reference: 2011.117.11.2

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