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

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

Winner, American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit

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. In response, advocacy groups ...