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Landscapes of Exclusion (State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South) - 9781952620355
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Product Details
Author:
William E. O'Brien
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Library of American Landscape History (March 1, 2022)
Imprint:
Library of American Landscape History
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781952620355
ISBN-10:
195262035X
Weight:
21.44oz
Dimensions:
8.64" x 10.06" x 0.62"
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Eloquence-SimonSchuster_06032026_P10163223_onix30_Complete-20260603.xml
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Eloquence
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$32.00
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65
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20
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Overview
The first-ever study of state park segregation across the Jim Crow South
Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies
Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History
An outgrowth of earlier park movements, the state park movement in the twentieth century sought to expand public access to scenic places. But under severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, access for Blacks was routinely and officially denied. The New Deal brought a massive wave of state park expansion, and advocacy groups pressured the National Park Service to design and construct segregated facilities for Blacks. These parks were typically substandard in relation to “white only” areas.
After World War II, the NAACP filed federal lawsuits that demanded park integration, and southern park agencies reacted with attempts to expand access to additional segregated facilities, hoping they could demonstrate that their parks achieved the “separate but equal” standard. But the courts consistently ruled in favor of integration, leading to the end of state park segregation by the mid-1960s. Even though it has largely faded from public awareness, the imprint of segregated state park design remains visible throughout the South.
William E. O'Brien illuminates this untold facet of Jim Crow history in the first-ever study of state park segregation. Emphasizing the historical trajectory of events leading to integration, his book underscores the profound inequality that persisted for decades in the number, size, and quality of state park spaces provided for Black visitors across the Jim Crow South.
Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies
Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History
An outgrowth of earlier park movements, the state park movement in the twentieth century sought to expand public access to scenic places. But under severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, access for Blacks was routinely and officially denied. The New Deal brought a massive wave of state park expansion, and advocacy groups pressured the National Park Service to design and construct segregated facilities for Blacks. These parks were typically substandard in relation to “white only” areas.
After World War II, the NAACP filed federal lawsuits that demanded park integration, and southern park agencies reacted with attempts to expand access to additional segregated facilities, hoping they could demonstrate that their parks achieved the “separate but equal” standard. But the courts consistently ruled in favor of integration, leading to the end of state park segregation by the mid-1960s. Even though it has largely faded from public awareness, the imprint of segregated state park design remains visible throughout the South.
William E. O'Brien illuminates this untold facet of Jim Crow history in the first-ever study of state park segregation. Emphasizing the historical trajectory of events leading to integration, his book underscores the profound inequality that persisted for decades in the number, size, and quality of state park spaces provided for Black visitors across the Jim Crow South.
