<I>Dixie Café</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1948
name: label: Created by
content: Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 - 2000
notes: label: Caption
content: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment.
label: Caption
content: —Jim Crow law, Alabama
label: Caption
content: Jim Crow denotes a policy of legal racial segregation instituted by southern states and local legislatures from the late 1870s through the mid-20th century. Jacob Lawrence created Dixie Café the same year he designed six illustrations for One-Way Ticket, a poetry book by Langston Hughes exploring racial segregation and African American migration to the North.
label: Description
content: A depiction of a segregated café rendered in black and white, with black diners seated in the "Colored" section on the left, and white diners seated in the "White" section on the right. The drawing is signed and dated by the artist on the front.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Segregation
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Margaret and Michael Asch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2010.73
objectType: label: Type
content: gouaches
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: gouache on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 16 15/16 x 22 in. (43 x 55.9 cm)