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Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs

Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs


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Paradise Park was the ""colored only"" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River - blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they never crossed the invisible line in the water. Full of vivid photographs, vintage advertisements, and interviews with employees and patrons, Remembering Paradise Park portrays a place of delight and leisure during the painful era of Jim Crow. Racial violence was at its height in Florida - the famous Groveland rape case happened right as Paradise Park opened - and many African Americans saw the park as a safe place for families. It was a popular vacation spot for the area's strong black community, which outnumbered the white community as early as the Civil War and had become one of the most cohesive and prosperous black populations in the South. This book compares the park to other tourist destinations set aside for African Americans in the state and across the country. Though Silver Springs was Florida's only attraction to operate a parallel facility for African Americans, Paradise Park has been just a whisper in the story of Florida tourism until now.

About the Author :
Lu Vickers is coauthor of Weeki Wachee Mermaids: Thirty Years of Underwater Photography and the author of Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida and the novel Breathing Underwater. Cynthia Wilson-Graham is an educator, lecturer, and advocate of the cultural history and interpretations of Paradise Park.

Review :
"Authors Lu Vickers and Cynthia Wilson Graham have put together a comprehensive history on this long forgotten vacation destination."--Orlando Weekly "Paints a picture of a place of fun during a painful period in time, comparing it to other tourist spots set aside exclusively for African-Americans at the time."--Daily Mail


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780813061528
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida
  • Height: 256 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 800 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0813061520
  • Publisher Date: 30 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs
  • Width: 177 mm


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