Park View playground as a whites-only playground, 1924.

ID: 3802 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Recreation - Park View Playground: 693 Otis Place NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Recreation - Park View Playground: 693 Otis Place NW

Civil Rights Tour: Recreation - Park View Playground: 693 Otis Place NW

In the late 1940s, Park View Playground—an all-white facility in an increasingly Black neighborhood—was one of a few playgrounds selected by the Board of Recreation for racial integration. This…