Heart Island's Transformation and the Creation of Black Coney Island

Heart Island went through various transformations including civil war camps, asylums, and mass graves/nAn amusement park was built on Heart Island to bring life to the island/nConey Island was a popular destination with an iconic beach front boardwalk and America's first roller coaster/nDuring the 1920s, only white people were allowed in Coney Island/nSolomon Riley aimed to provide black New Yorkers with their own version of Coney Island/nRiley actively worked to give black Americans opportunities, such as renting properties to them in a mainly white neighborhood