Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Jim Crow Recreation -- 2. The New Deal and Early State Parks in the South -- 3. Park Service Planning Meets Resistance -- 4. Pursuing "Separate but Equal" After…
Jim Crow recreation -- The New Deal and early state parks in the South -- Park service planning meets resistance -- Pursuing "separate but equal" after World War II -- Going to court -- What's become of the parks?
"From early in the twentieth century, the state park movement sought to expand public access to scenic American places. During the 1930s those efforts accelerated as the National Park Service used New Deal funding and labor to construct parks nationwide. However, under severe Ji…