Union Terminal Colored Waiting Room, Jacksonville, Florida,

Title

Union Terminal Colored Waiting Room, Jacksonville, Florida,

Subject

Union Terminal (Jacksonville, Fla.) Train Station; segregated waiting room

Description

African Americans in the segregated waiting room of the Union Terminal, Jacksonville, Florida. The Jacksonville train station, completed in 1919, was the largest in the South. Many southern blacks caught transportation North from this station.

Creator

Woodward photo/MS 74-001 Neg. 9666 (credit on photo, Woodward #4) Album ID: 849577 Photo ID: 17874838

Source

Metro Jacksonville Photographs

Publisher

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Fall 2014

Date

1921

Contributor

Suzanne Irvin and Drew Blumenthal

Format

JPG

Type

Still Image

Original Format

photo

Files

train station.jpg
"Jacksonville Train Station"


Citation

Woodward photo/MS 74-001 Neg. 9666 (credit on photo, Woodward #4) Album ID: 849577 Photo ID: 17874838, “Union Terminal Colored Waiting Room, Jacksonville, Florida,,” Goin' North, accessed December 4, 2023, https://goinnorth.org/items/show/60.