Black Worker in Downtown Raleigh

Black Worker in Downtown Raleigh

This image represents the lack of mobility for black men and women in the East Raleigh/South Park neighborhoods. Black citizens were often confined to pre-approved segregated areas. With few options for housing and employment, black families throughout Southeast Raleigh sought answers from the Raleigh city government.

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Unknown, "African American Man in Downtown Raleigh Sweeping in Front of a Coca-Cola Advertisement," 1960s, Raleigh and the Triangle Area, UA023.026.020, North Carolina State University Special Collections Research Center, Raleigh, NC, http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0012835.

1960-XX-XX to 1969-XX-XX

Mandy Benter

still image

photograph

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