Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters : : The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America / / Victoria W. Wolcott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Wolcott, Victoria W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 18 illus.

Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. A Tarnished Golden Age: Race and Recreation Before World War II
• 2. The Fifth Freedom: Racial Liberalism, Nonviolence, and Recreation Riots in the 1940s
• 3. "A Northern City with a Southern Exposure": Challenging Recreational Segregation in the 1950s
• 4. Violence in the City of Good Neighbors: Delinquency and Consumer Rights in the Postwar City
• 5. Building a National Movement: Students Confront Recreational Segregation
• 6. "Riotland": Race and the Decline of Urban Amusements
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments