Unidentified Man Infront of Barbershop
Item
Title
Unidentified Man Infront of Barbershop
Identifier
2022.006.054
Type
Image
Description
This unidentified man stands in front of a common symbol for the era, the segregated barbershop. For decades, segregation in shops and services was common in Redlands. Manasses Soto recalls: "When I'd go downtown to get a haircut I couldn't get a haircut because the signs said, 'For Whites Only' and that kind of disturbed me because I was a student going to school and I couldn't see it in school with the students too much, but the adults seemed to push it on us. The only person that would take me to give me a hiarcut was Abe. We used to call him Abe Lincoln. He had whiskers and he had a barbershop downtown, and he used to go every year when they had the Lincoln Memorial Parade and they had a celebration for Lincoln at the Bowl, he would go and give a speech and that was very enjoyable to see the guy that gave me the haircuts."
Subject
Business
Community Life in Redlands
Local Business
Racial/Ethnic Discrimination
Segregation
Spatial Coverage
Redlands (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
Unknown
Creator
Redlands (Calif.)
Date
Unknown
Contributor
Inland Mexican Heritage, Courtesy of Sam Coyazo Jr.
Format
.tif
Language
English
Rights
Bibliographic Citation
Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012, 39.