African-Americans weren’t welcome in the western National Parks in the early 20th-century park administrators had a “conscious, but unpublicized policy of discouraging visits by African Americans, [who were], in the opinion of administration, ‘conspicuousobjected to by other visitors[and] impossible to serve.'” When new Parks such as Shenandoah were established in the 1930’s in the South, they followed local Jim Crow laws. The practice ended during WWII.
