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Joyland is a neighborhood of small, single family homes in southeast
Lee Ann Lands, ''The culture of property: race, class, and housing landscapes in Atlanta''
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Later the Joyland Park public housing project was built in the area.
Arthur Langford Park
in 1995, in honor of city councilman, Georgia state senator (1984–1994) and minister Arthur Langford, Jr. Joyland also has a street named after him, Arthur Langford, Jr. Place.
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...
and site of a former 1921 amusement park built for African Americans.
It is bordered by the Downtown Connector
In Downtown Atlanta, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/ Langford Parkway interchang ...
(I-75/I-85) freeway on the west, High Point on the north, Pryor Avenue and The Villages at Carver on the east, and Amal Heights on the south.
History
On May 16, 1921, Joyland Park, an amusement park for African Americans was opened in the area, according to its ads in the ''Atlanta Independent'' at the time, "the only shady park" where African Americans "could enjoy themselves". At the opening a number of prominent Atlantans spoke: *Mayor James Key * Big Bethel AME Church pastor Rev. Dr. Richard Henry Singleton * Wheat Street Baptist Church pastor Rev. Dr. P. James Bryant *Jessie O. Thomas
Jessie O. Thomas (21 December 1885 – 18 February 1972) was a prominent African-American educator from Atlanta. He was founder of the Atlanta University School of Social Work in 1920 and first director of the Southern Field Division of the Nati ...
, founder of the Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded on September19, 1865, as Atlanta University, it was the first HBCU in the Southe ...
School of Social Work and first director of the Southern Field Division of the National Urban League
The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for Afri ...
*Prominent black physician and founding member of the Atlanta NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du&nbs ...
chapter Dr. William F. Penn
In 1926 a subdivision for African Americans, also called Joyland Park, was built here. Residents included farmers, farmhands and laborers. Lots were around in size./ref>
Later the Joyland Park public housing project was built in the area.
Government
The neighborhood is part of NPU Y.Parks
Joyland Park at the center of the neighborhood was renameArthur Langford Park
in 1995, in honor of city councilman, Georgia state senator (1984–1994) and minister Arthur Langford, Jr. Joyland also has a street named after him, Arthur Langford, Jr. Place.
See also
References
{{Atlanta neighborhoods Amusement parks in Georgia (U.S. state) 1921 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Neighborhoods in Atlanta