Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities

Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities — page 9
office worker teacher librarian or nurse Employed women earned far less than men A COLORED Photography Stan Vachon courtesy of Library of Congress This drinking fountain in Halifax North Carolina taken in April 1938 shows the separation of black and white people in the South before the Civil Rights Move ment Black people and white people were not even allowed to drink from the same drinking fountains Journalist Takes a Stand Ozell Sutton the first black journalist hired to work on the afternoon newspaper in Little Rock Arkansas recalled years later that the newspaper did not use courtesy titles for black women called them Lula belle Joanne I would never write a story using a black woman without calling her Mrs They would go through my copy and cross it out And then the editor called me one day and said Ozell you know we don't use Mrs for black women So that we don't have to go through your paper and cross it out all the time couldn't you just write it according to the policy of the paper I