Wood sign for a segregated bus, 10 x 5 in., approx. 3/4 in. depth, with two even-sized holes in the base. Hand-painted in pale green with hand-stenciled silver letters. One side with "Colored / Please Do Not / Move Board" and reverse with ""White / Please Do Not / Move Board" (losses to paint and to portions of wood board, particularly on "Colored" side).

Provenance: Consignor relates that his father, who had moved to Alabama from Cleveland, Ohio, removed the sign from a Montgomery bus in 1949. A note handwritten by the consignor's father in 1993 accompanies the sign, and reads in part: "Taken from a Montgomery, AL bus in 1949."

A powerful remnant of the segregated South. Just six years after this sign was removed, Rosa Parks' arrest would launch the Montgomery bus boycott.