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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ndltd-uno.edu-oai-scholarworks.uno.edu-td-30322016-10-21T17:07:09Z Playing With Jim Crow: African American Private Parks in Early Twentieth Century New Orleans McQueeney, Kevin G 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 examines four private parks open to African Americans in order to understand the external forces that affected these spaces, leading to their success or closure, and their significance for black city residents. While scholars have argued public space in New Orleans was segregated during Jim Crow, little attention has been paid to African American parks as alternative spaces for black New Orleanians. Whites were able to control the location of the parks and the parks’ reliance on profit to survive resulted in short spans of existence for most. However, this thesis argues that these parks were crucial sites of identity and community formation and of resistance to segregation. 2015-05-15T07:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1989 http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3032&context=td University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations ScholarWorks@UNO Urban Parks Racial Segregation New Orleans Public Space Black Recreation Jim Crow Cultural History Social History United States History |
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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 examines four private parks open to African Americans in order to understand the external forces that affected these spaces, leading to their success or closure, and their significance for black city residents. While scholars have argued public space in New Orleans was segregated during Jim Crow, little attention has been paid to African American parks as alternative spaces for black New Orleanians. Whites were able to control the location of the parks and the parks’ reliance on profit to survive resulted in short spans of existence for most. However, this thesis argues that these parks were crucial sites of identity and community formation and of resistance to segregation. |
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