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August 19, 2012

Feast Your Eyes: An Illustration from Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters

This photograph by Lee Russell appears in the forthcoming Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America by Victoria W. Wolcott.

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Figure 5. African Americans skating at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago, 1941. CORE recruited talented young skaters from the Savoy to help desegregate white rinks. Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection.

Posted by on August 19, 2012 at 07:16 AM in African American Studies, American History & Studies, Political Science, Popular Culture, Public Policy, Urban Studies |

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