With Good Reason

African-American Heritage Tourism — feature
August 2nd, 2010

With people taking their summer holidays, Virginia boasts 35 state parks to explore. But, sixty years ago, state parks were open to whites only.  A historian is researching the ways that African-Americans created their own natural recreation areas.  Lydia Wilson of the radio program “With Good Reason” has more.

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