Children in Rose Park Playground in the 1950s

ID: 4149 ~ Source: Courtesy of Mount Zion AME Church Archives

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Recreation - Rose Park Playground: 2609 Dumbarton Street NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Recreation - Rose Park Playground: 2609 Dumbarton Street NW

Civil Rights Tour: Recreation - Rose Park Playground: 2609 Dumbarton Street NW

Rose Park Playground was one of the first playgrounds in the District to be racially integrated. It was part of an official experiment in interracial recreation organized in 1949 by the American…