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[CHAPTER 40]
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Sports and Recreations, 1900-1942.
T. T. Atwell, special representative of the War Camp Community Service of New York City, speaking in behalf of his race at the National Conference of Social Work, held in New Orleans on April 14-21, 1920, declared:
…that the doctrine of play, of recreation, which is the greatest guide to character, is the thing most needed in our program for colored people. It is what the individual or community does in its leisure time that indicates whether the one or the other is good or bad, properly directed, or misdirected.
Like Topsy, organized recreational programs among Negroes of the State “jus‟ growed.” But this growing up process was greatly accelerated by far-sighted Negro leaders, who realized that there was a strong need among the Negro population for some form of recreational diversion that would offset the effects of long working hours, bad housing, low wages, unpleasant working conditions, ill health, and serious social maladjustments. Sometimes these movements for healthy diversion was a concerted movement among very ordinary, hard-working Negroes who felt within themselves the insistent demand to organize social, aid, and pleasure clubs. At other times, leading whites did not fail to include the darker third of the State‟s population in their energetic drive towards more and better playgrounds for whites. Prominent among these have been the late Mrs. Olive Stallings and Mayor Robert S. Maestri.
Although carpetbag governments composed of Negroes and whites were the originators of the two finest public parks of the City of New Orleans--and prominent
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