"Colored Sink"-photo of text
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Title
"Colored Sink"-photo of text
Subject
Jim Crow Artifacts, Portsmouth Community Colored Library Museum
Description
Text: "Colored" Sink. Jim Crow practices mandated that there be no social or physical interactions between blacks and whites, especially in the workplace and in social settings. This hand washing sink, which once hung on a Portsmouth CSX Railroad warehouse wall, is a tangible example of how seregation was a part of daily life. Not only were blacks prohibited from drinking from the same water fountains as whites, blacks wee prohibited from washing their hands in the same sinks. The word "colored" signified that this sink was to be used by African Americans only.
Creator
Don’t Duck History
Source
Portsmouth Community Colored Library Museum, Portsmouth VA
Publisher
Don’t Duck History
Date
photo taken 08-08-2015
Contributor
Photo credit: Tracy Clark
Rights
Don’t Duck History
Relation
CSX Railroad
Format
Digital photo, jpg file
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
photo of text
Physical Dimensions
2.45 MB original
32.4 KB compressed
32.4 KB compressed
Files
Citation
Don’t Duck History, “"Colored Sink"-photo of text,” Don't Duck History, accessed May 16, 2024, https://dontduckhistory.omeka.net/items/show/24.