"No U.S. Dough to Help Jim Crow"

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This file appears in: Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall
"No U.S. Dough to Help Jim Crow"

The New Orleans Branch of the NAACP campaigned to protest racist government policies. This poster provides a letter template for taxpayers to sign and mail to the government with their tax returns. The resource mobilized Americans to speak out against racial discrimination.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch Collection (MSS 28), Louisiana and Special Collections, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

This file appears in: Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall

By Courtney Carver & Lauren Smith
During the 1960s, Jim Crow laws confined Black New Orleanians to second class citizenship: white owned businesses, restaurants, hotels, and other establishments denied accommodations for Black customers. The City of New Orleans also enforced racial…