Segregated Waiting Room

Brentwood Depot in (Washington County) with a waiting-room sign for “White Passengers” (see insert); 1894. (Left to right): Will I. Patterson and Willie Barron.

white man and little girl stand in entrance of wooden building. photo inset of white man's face in front of sign

Courtesy of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History/Mrs. L. Fine Collection (S-97-115)

Media

Time Period

Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900)

Category

Civil Rights and Social Change / Civil War to Gilded Age / Race

Type

Place

Race & Ethnicity

White

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