How the National Park Service grappled with segregation during the 20th century (National Parks Traveler)
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Devlin Comments on Segregation in National Parks
Erin Devlin, assistant professor of history and American studies, was interviewed recently on the National Parks Traveler podcast. She discussed her research into sites in national parks in Virginia that were associated with segregation during the first half of the 20th century. She initially looked at all of the parks in Virginia before 1964, and […]
National Parks Traveler Episode 26: Segregation In the Parks, and Winter in Everglades (National Parks Traveler)
Devlin’s National Parks Project Highlighted in The Free Lance-Star
Assistant Professor of History and American Studies Erin Devlin’s collaboration with the National Park Service was the focus of an article in The Free Lance-Star. Devlin is working with NPS to develop a historic resource study that will explore the practice of racial segregation in national parks throughout Virginia during the first half of the […]
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Presents National Park Service Centennial Speaker Series (fredericksburg.today)