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An excerpt is from a 1930’s publication titled, “The WPA Guide to Indiana: The Hoosier State” describes two bathing beaches on Riverside’s White River.... “one at 26th Street for whites and one at 16th Street for Negroes.”
The white beach had a diving tower, large relaxation deck (Riverside Pavilion) and boat rides. Several 1910 postcards illustrate these amenities.
Chelsea Sutton at the Indiana Historical Society discusses the larger segregation practices at Riverside Park in her blog: https://indianahistory.org/blog/reckoning-with-riverside/
A larger discussion of segregation at Riverside Amusement Park will be had later in the tour.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Riverside Neighborhood
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