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The Fairground Park riot was a race riot that broke out on June 21, 1949, at a newly integrated public swimming pool. [1] The Fairground Park pool was located near Natural Bridge and Vandeventer Avenues in north St. Louis .
Fairground Park is a municipal park that opened in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was originally a privately owned facility, first used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association for the St. Louis Exposition from 1856 through 1902.
Fairground is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood's boundaries are defined as Glasgow Avenue on the east, west and North Florissant Avenues on the north, Warne on the west, and Fairground Park and Natural Bridge Avenue on the south.
Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present site of the St. Louis Fairground Park. Before the Civil War, the site was owned and used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association , which at the time was located on the ...
St. Louis Fair Grounds, site of annual Exposition, in an 1874 print. The Saint Louis Exposition or St. Louis Expo was a series of annual agricultural and technical fairs held in St. Louis' Fairgrounds Park, from the 1850s to 1902. In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a major World's Fair, was held in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual ...
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1947 – Fernwood Park race riot, mid-August, Fernwood, Chicago, IL; 1949 – Fairground Park riot, June 21, St. Louis Missouri (race riot) 1949 – Anacostia Pool Riot, June 29, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. (race riot) 1949 – Peekskill riots, Peekskill, New York (race riot) 1949 – Englewood race riot, November 8–12, Englewood, Chicago, IL
Marquette Park is a historic park in Dutchtown It is home to a recreation center and the historic Marquette Park Pool. [5] The park was named after Father Pere Marquette in 1915 [6] and covers 17 acres (6.9 ha). [6] Father Pere Marquette (a Jesuit priest) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to explore and map the northern portion of the ...