- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Segregated Ponce de Leon Park
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1800/1900
- Subject:
- History
Archaeology - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- By the 1880s, as Atlanta grew and expanded, so too did Jim Crow segregation. The popular Ponce de Leon Springs, an amusement park and lake, was for whites only. Blacks were permitted only as servants.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/segregation/ponce-de-leon-park-with-segregation-sign_001/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/vg2/id/6401/rec/3
- Original Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
-
