Park View Playground Pool, 1969

ID: 3803 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection; ©Washington Post

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…