For years, the Montpelier Station, Va., post office shared a space with a museum, where “White” and “Colored” signs are part of an exhibit on segregation. Over the summer, it “determined the display at the site was unacceptable to the Postal Service.”
Outside the Montpelier Station segregation exhibit is a sign noting that the train station was restored to “document this time of legalized segregation in American History,” explaining segregation laws were in effect in the state and other parts of the South from the end of the Civil War to the civil rights era. The sign gives a brief history of the depot and notes that a “vibrant black community called Montpelier Station home.
Moriarty, the foundation spokeswoman, told the Star-Exponent that the exhibit taught an important historical lesson. “We are proud of the exhibition that presents the realities of life during the Jim Crow era, showing the original segregated ticketing and waiting facilities,” she said.
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