historic photo from this theater: http://dallaslibrary2.org/mbutts/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5430
“S.R. Tankersley of the Negro Moving Picture Machine Operators Union, Local 249-A, pickets in front of the Lincoln Theater”
text from: http://dallaslibrary2.org/texas/photogallery/marionbutts/civilrights.htm
“S. R. Tankersley, with the Negro Moving Picture Machine Operators Union, protesting in front of the Lincoln Theater at 5414 Bexar Street. The theater was patronized solely by blacks but employed a white projectionist. Owners of the theater sued and won an injunction against the union to prevent them from using the word "Negro” on the pickets.
December 1949"
historic photo from this theater: http://dallaslibrary2.org/mbutts/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5430
“S.R. Tankersley of the Negro Moving Picture Machine Operators Union, Local 249-A, pickets in front of the Lincoln Theater”
text from: http://dallaslibrary2.org/texas/photogallery/marionbutts/civilrights.htm
“S. R. Tankersley, with the Negro Moving Picture Machine Operators Union, protesting in front of the Lincoln Theater at 5414 Bexar Street. The theater was patronized solely by blacks but employed a white projectionist. Owners of the theater sued and won an injunction against the union to prevent them from using the word "Negro” on the pickets. December 1949"