Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South
- ISBN-10
- 195262035X
- ISBN-13
- 9781952620355
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-03
- Author
- William E O'Brien
Description
During the 1930s, the state park movement and the National Park Service expanded public access to scenic American places, especially during the era of the New Deal. However, under severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, African Americans were routinely and officially denied entrance to these supposedly shared sites. Landscapes of Exclusion presents the first-ever study of segregation in southern state parks, underscoring the profound disparity that persisted for decades in the Jim Crow South.
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- 2016
- 191 pages
- Paperback
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