Fairground-Swimming-Pool-1949 - from our story 'David Isom, Eugene Williams And The Fight To Swim Whilst Black In Mid-Century America'

Black swimmers enter Fairgrounds Park Pool in St. Louis in 1949. They were the first black swimmers to enter the pool, and they were assaulted by angry white residents soon after the photo was taken. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Archives - University of Missouri

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