Sign used for segregating transportation terminal seating area
date: label: Date
content: before 1950
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Description
content: A hand painted wood segregation sign. The sign is painted with a whitewash background which has thinned with age. In large 3-1/2 inch hand painted lettering, in dark blue paint, the piece reads: [COLORED SECTION.] The board retains two pencil lines used to guide the lettering. The back has only the whitewash, now with a slight green hue from age. There are eye screws on the top and bottom of the sign.
place: label: Place used
content: Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Transportation
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Tools and Equipment
label: Exhibition
content: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.117.11.1
objectType: label: Type
content: signs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: whitewash and paint on wood
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 13 1/4 x 36 x 7/8 in. (33.7 x 91.4 x 2.2 cm)