Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Racial segregation, Mississippi 1939

 
Original - An African-American man climbs stairs to a theater's "colored" entrance, Mississippi, 1939. The door on the ground level is marked "white men only".
Reason
A week ago during President Obama's inauguration, some of the older commentators on one of the broadcasts remembered the racial discrimination they had witnessed early in their lives and wondered how a new generation could understand how far things have come without seeing how bad they were. One way to convey that memory is to restore its record. Not all history is pretty; this deserves the front row treatment the man on the stairwell may never have received.
Articles this image appears in
Racial segregation, Racial segregation in the United States
Creator
Marion Post Wolcott

Promoted File:Segregated cinema entrance3.jpg MER-C 04:33, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]