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| Title: | Equal access to public accommodations |
| Date: | 1940-1964 |
| Description: | Section of online exhibit focusing on efforts to overcome discrimination in public accommodations ranging from the 1944 Irene Morgan court case against segregated seating on buses to the 1961 sit-ins and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The page includes ten black-and-white photographs and one newspaper article from the Virginia Historical Society, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the Valentine Richmond History Center. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs | Newspapers | Web sites |
| Subjects: | African Americans--Segregation--Virginia | Civil rights movements--Virginia | African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia | Discrimination in public accommodations--Virginia | Segregation in transportation--Virginia | Virginia |
| Collection: | Civil Rights Movement in Virginia : An Exhibition on Display February 7 - June 19, 2004 |
| Institution: | Virginia Historical Society |
| Contributors: | Virginia Historical Society | Richmond Times-Dispatch | Valentine Richmond History Center | Civil Rights Movement in Virginia Collection (Virginia Historical Society) |
| Online Publisher: | [Richmond (Va.)] : Virginia Historical Society |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: The Civil Rights movement in Virginia (Virginia Historical Society) |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.vahistorical.org/civilrights/equal.htm |
