Historic Images of African-American Life During the Depression

1939
A man uses the 'Colored' entrance to a movie theater in Belzoni, Mississippi. Most public facilities were segregated by race in the former Confederate states of the south under Jim Crow laws enacted after the Civil War and throughout the first half of the 20th century. These laws were eventually overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• African-American Soldiers in the Civil War