Playing With Jim Crow: African American Private Parks in Early Twentieth Century New Orleans

Public space in New Orleans became increasingly segregated following the 1896 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. This trend applied to sites of recreation, as nearly all public parks in the city became segregated. African Americans turned, instead, to private parks. This work examin...

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Main Author: McQueeney, Kevin G
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1989
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3032&context=td