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21 historic photos from Paradise Park, Central Florida’s tourist attraction ‘for colored people’

In the days of Jim Crow, African Americans in Central Florida didn’t have many places they could turn to for recreation outside of their insular communities. But on one side of the Silver River in Silver Springs, Fla. there was Paradise Park, the tourist attraction “for colored people.” From 1949 to 1969, the park provided a refuge to vacation […]

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