The Greensboro train station

At the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, we learned about the formerly segregated train station in Greensboro which was owned and operated by the Southern Railway and was built in 1927.  Its original design planned for separate facilities for whites and "colored" persons.  The station is of course no longer segregated and now serves as the Amtrak station in Greensboro.  After our visit to the museum, I drove over the station to check it out.  No one got out of the car except me. Oh well, their loss.

Layout of the station. Note the design elements which incorporated segregation of whites and "colored" persons.

Present day station.

Former entrance for "colored" persons.

Mural of the Southern Railway System.

Old train announcement board.





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