Project: Riverside Racism: Segregation at Riverside Amusement Park

Indianapolis, IN
Created by:

Madison Hincks

This Prezi traces the history of Riverside Amusement Park and the intersections of racism and environmental justice at the site from its founding in 1903 through desegregation battles in the 1950s and 60s, its eventual closing subsequent health hazards, to the present concerns about gentrification.

Indianapolis Toxic Sites and Community Treasures
Digging Deeper into Indianapolis’ Combined Sewer System
What’s Really in Fall Creek?
Riverside Racism: Segregation at Riverside Amusement Park
Life and Times of Site 0153: An Instagram Photoblog
Swimming in Fall Creek: A Timeline of Community Action and Resistance
Charting Inequity: An Indianapolis Map of Environmental Injustice

Indianapolis Toxic Heritage Collection

Leadlining
Critical Incompetence: The 1994 Central Soya Plant Explosion
Welcome to Sunshine Gardens
Down in the Dumps
Rising from the Soot
Coal Ash and the Toxic Legacy of Fossil Capital
Environment and Race
A Malodorous, Septic Stream