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'Negro Drinking at 'Colored' Water Cooler in Streetcar Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,' 1939.

Blacks and whites drank from separate water fountains and coolers, as in this Oklahoma City streetcar station in 1939

CREDIT: Lee, Russell. "Negro Drinking at 'Colored' Water Cooler in Streetcar Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.' 1939. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945, Library of Congress.



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