Posts Tagged ‘1942’

Images from SPLASH! Swimming and Segregation

Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!

From Chapter 13: “The Last Taboo.”

Municipal pool, Washington, DC, 1942. Almost one in three Washingtonians were of African-American descent by the start of World War 2. All these municipal swimmers are white.

 

 

 

 

 

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