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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.
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