R.C. Hickman Collection

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R. C. Hickman is a Dallas-based photographer whose pictures appeared for several decades in the Dallas Star-Post, a thriving African-American-owned newspaper. Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.	“Separate but equal” schools, Euless (NAACP), 1950. “Each time the NAACP took a school district to court that called themselves ‘separate but equal,’ we proved through my photographs that the schools were certainly segregated, but not equal.”--R. C. Hickman Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.	“Separate but equal” schools, Euless (NAACP), 1950. “You know, they didn’t have a heater like that in any white school.” Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Nat King Cole, 1954. “When Nat King Cole performed at the State Fair for white people, they let me in because I had this big camera. My camera allowed me to go anywhere. I sat on the front row and shot all I needed to shoot.”--R. C. Hickman Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.	The Hickman family-owned BAR-20 store in Mineola, Texas, with neighborhood children, 1952. Hickman helped to rebuild the store in 1945 after it burned down. Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.	Record Shop, 1952. "Dickie Foster was selling records at a little shop much like this one. Hers was in a corner of Clark's Liquor Store."--R. C. Hickman Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

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