colored entrances
Hued entry points
Colored entrances were doorways designated for Black Americans during the Jim Crow era, when racial segregation was legally enforced across the Southern United States.
Theaters, restaurants, train stations, and other public buildings required Black patrons to use separate entrances, often located at the side or rear: The colored entrance led to the balcony seats.
The term appears in historical accounts and period signage documenting institutionalized segregation from the 1870s through the 1960s.
- segregationForced separation by group
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- separateTo set apart
- doorwaysFramed openings for passage
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