Lynchburg Improvement Association postcard
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- Identifier
- JMLMS1396.Folder6.0127-112.11-12
- Barcode
- JMLMS1396.Folder6.0127-112.11-12
- Source Identifier
- 636
- Title
- Lynchburg Improvement Association postcard
- Description
- Digital image of a postcard and envelope sent to Jones memorial Library from the Lynchburg Improvement Association dated 15 February 1961. The postcard includes the message "Dear Citizen: How Long Will You Allow Your Tax Dollars to Support Patterson's Private Prejudices." The postcard is alluding to the segregated services of Patterson Drug Store in Lynchburg, Virginia. The store had been the site of a December 1960 sit-in by students at Randolph College, protesting the racial segregation of the drugstore's restaurant services.
- Date
- 15 February 1961
- topic
- businesses
- correspondence
- envelopes
- Jim Crow era
- Letters
- MS 1396
- MS1396
- Patterson's Drug Store
- postcards
- racial integration
- racial segregation
- Digital Format
- image/jpeg
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- George M. Jones Library Association