Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South

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 ...