Richmond, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina ca March, 1939

Richmond, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina ca March, 1939 Front w/ stone carving above pillars: Union Station of Richmond. CU Sign: Coloured entrance. 05:34:09 Car leaving station; main street w/ traffic, pedestrians, trolley cars & electric buses, trams, groups of White & Black people walking. Front of large building, cars & trucks aka lorries past. 05:35:53 Two men enter Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company office building. LS former capital of Confederacy Building. CU sign: White House of Confederacy. 05:36:25 Outside bus station w/ sign: Coloured waiting room. 05:36:36 Street w/ White pedestrians at crossing on Broad Street. 05:36:57 CU highway sign: Coloured Tourists stop at Hotel McGuire...Fredericksburg, VA. 05:37:14 Virginia State Capital building, old church & big 1930s buildings behind. 05:37:53 Military cadet or policeman past corner neighborhood restaurant “Booker T”. White owner (?) seen thru window w/ sign For Coloured Only. Black waitress looking out past sign. 05:38:12 Charleston, South Carolina Ladies enter high ceil mansion with vine. Church spire. Old-fashioned, leafy narrow street w/ two story houses. Iron gate R.G. Rhett, No 147, old lady comes out. Man in garden by house, enters house. 05:39:47 Battery Park, car past, people on benches. Promenade by sea w/ palm trees, cannons displayed. Front mansion, two ladies enter. Monument on promenade to confederate defenders of Charleston. More iron gates, mansions & imposing buildings, church. Jim Crow Segregation; Virginia; Wealth; 1930s Southern Americana; Pre-WWII Daily Life; Pre-WW2; Blacks; Negroes; Ethnic;