Segregated Ponce de Leon Park

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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.

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Segregated Ponce de Leon Park

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