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I learned something interesting today.
Observe this pic I took today of the relocated Seaboard Air Line Railroad Sulpher Springs Depot in Florida (built 1924). Note the front entrance underneath the Seaboard sign and the side entrance to the left. If you enter either entrance, you arrive at the same ticket counter, but there is a separate ticket window for each entrance and there is a dividing wall partitioning the passenger waiting area in two. Why was this depot designed this way? Answer: because of Jim Crow Laws. The front entrance leads to the White ticket counter and the side entrance leads to the Black ticket counter. If you would have used this depot in its heyday, you would have easily been able to tell which entrance to use, as there would be signs such as "Whites only" or "Coloreds only" above each door. Those signs are no longer on the building, so how do I know the front entrance is the White entrance? Because that one leads to the waiting area with a small restroom (the Black waiting area has no restroom).
Segregated small train stations like this one were pretty much the norm throughout the Southeast US prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
