The indignities of Jim Crow seeped into every facet of social, political, and economic life in segregated America. That reality is nowhere better illustrated than in the architectural drawing of a segregated waiting room in the Central of Georgia Railway station depot in Monticello, Georgia, dated 1901. The harsh and humiliating realities of Jim Crow are sanitized in the precise architect’s handwriting denoting the White and Colored bathrooms. Note that white females are referred to as “Ladies,” a social distinction denied to all black women. It was no accident that the movement to destroy the institutionalized dehumanization of African Americans in this country—and the violent white backlash it provoked—would begin in places of public accommodation like the waiting rooms rendered so bloodlessly here in black and white.