Segregation at Jekyll Island
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The Jekyll Island Authority opened a segregated section of beach, named the St. Andrews Subdivision, in 1955 at the southern end of the island. Although the facilities were not equal to those enjoyed by white visitors, Jekyll Island provided the only public beach available to African Americans in Georgia through the 1950s. In 1964 the district court decision in Law v. Jekyll Island State Park Authority mandated the desegregation of all state-operated facilities, and the island integrated peacefully.
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