Ernest C. Withers, “A sign outside the Memphis City Zoo” (ca. 1959)
Instead of desegregating the Memphis Zoo and allowing guests in regardless of race, one day out of the year was set aside for Black Americans to visit.
Betty Burden, a 16-year-old hairdresser, plays with children on a rubble heap near her Chapel Court home, Birmingham, England, ca. 1951 - by Bert Hardy