African American resorts
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During the decades of segregation in the United States, African Americans established various resorts. The Negro Motorist Green Book helped guide African American to accommodating and safe places.[1]
California
- Eureka Villa in California
- Pacific Beach Club in Orange County, California
Florida
- American Beach, Florida[2]
- Bruce Beach in Pensacola, Florida
- Butler Beach in Florida
- Manhattan Beach (Hanna Park) in Florida[2][3]
- Paradise Park, Florida
- Virginia Key Beach at Virginia Key, Florida
Maryland
New Jersey
- "Chicken Bone Beach" at Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Beach 3 at Long Branch, New Jersey
North Carolina
- Shell Island, North Carolina[6]
- Freeman Beach (now Freeman Park) in North Carolina[5][7]
South Carolina
- Atlantic Beach, South Carolina in South Carolina[4]
- Mosquito Beach, now part of Mosquito Beach Historic District, in South Carolina[4]
Virginia
- Buckroe Beach near Hampton, Virginia[5]
- Bay Shore in Virginia[8][5]
- Mark Haven in Virginia[9][5]
Other areas
- Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard[5]
- Idlewild, Michigan[1][10]
- Lincoln Hills, Colorado
- Fox Lake (Angola, Indiana)[5]
- Gulfside Assembly in Waveland, Mississippi[5]
- Eastville in Sag Harbor, New York[5]
See also
- Racial segregation in the United States
- Black-owned businesses
- List of African-American neighborhoods
- Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953 in South Africa
- Index of articles related to African Americans
- Chitlin' Circuit
References
- ^ a b "Before the Green Book, These Resorts Offered Hidden Safe Havens for Black Americans". HISTORY. January 7, 2019.
- ^ a b "Manhattan Beach, a resort for African-Americans, once flourished in Hanna Park dunes". The Florida Times-Union.
- ^ "Recovering Manhattan Beach: Florida's First African American Beach Resort in the Segregated South | Beaches Museum". 28 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Preserving Black Historical Resorts Is a Radical Act".
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Staff, L. C. S. (February 21, 2013). "History of African American resorts". Lake County Star.
- ^ "When Luxury Was a Luxury: The Rise and Fall of NC's First All-Black Resort - Cardinal & Pine". cardinalpine.com. 6 August 2021.
- ^ "BLACK HISTORY: The history of Freeman Beach". February 23, 2019.
- ^ "Va.'s Historic Black Beaches Spotlighted in New Exhibit". 21 September 2021.
- ^ "Green Books". community.village.virginia.edu.
- ^ Nugent, Tom (1 January 2003). "Idlewild, 'the Resort That Segregation Built'". Washington Post. Retrieved 3 August 2023.