Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
STEP TO THE BACK OF THE BUS (CIVIL RIGHTS--JIM CROW.) North Carolina Law. Providing for the Separate Accommodation of White & Colored Passengers Upon Motor Buses and for Other Purposes. Printed cardboard placard, 6 1/4x13 inches; some scattered foxing, one corner bumped. [Raleigh?, 1907]

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One of the earliest official "Jim Crow" Statutes. North Carolina passed 23 Jim Crow laws between 1873 and 1957. Seven concerned school segregation, six were related to transportation and four outlawed miscegenation. No anti-segregation laws were passed until 1963. Suggesting the difficulty in determining a person's race, a school segregation law passed in 1903 declared that no child, no matter how "remote the strain" of Negro blood, could be considered a white child and attend a school for white children.