Keeping Black People Away From White Swimming Pools Is An American Tradition

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read more:

1. Keeping black people away from white swimming pools is an American tradition
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/10/8753129/swimming-pool-integration-racism


2. McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/troubled-waters-in-mckinney-texas/395150/

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1. Strom Thurmond's Swimming Pool

"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the n*gger race into our theatres, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches."

http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2015/06/strom-thurmonds-swimming-pool

[StevieM]

4. A great reminder that the Civil War and the fight over Segregation were not just about states rights

They were about racism.

[KamaAina]

2. I thought swimming pools were blue.

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5. sometimes yellow

[Rex]

3. Yes it is...I remember this being true back in the 1980s...geez

2015... :\

[jaysunb]

6. Nearly naked white women is the main reason. n/t

[JI7]

8. not the only one as it's an issue even among pools with only kids

[malaise]

7. You would think we were the ones who captured them

dragged them across the Atlantic enslaved them, destroyed their families and raped and tortured them at will.

Funny how the reverse is true. It's way more than hate - it's also fear.

[JI7]

9. And instead of facing this we make jokes about black people not being able to swim

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10. yep, they're at it again ...

‘Black people can’t swim': Twitter racists react to disturbing McKinney police video

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/black-people-cant-swim-twitter-racists-react-to-disturbing-mckinney-police-video/

[gollygee]

11. Exactly!

White people keep black people out of swimming pools and off most beaches for EVER and then joke about who does and doesn't know how to swim. Deny opportunity and then ridicule over not having had the opportunity.

[JI7]

16. and it's become something of a cultural thing where even black people themselves make fun of it

but we never discuss the history of why that came about and it's not even something many are aware of because civil rights is usually discussed in terms of a few major big name figures and some major moments in history .

but things like swimming pools being off limits is one of the everyday type things people face . i wish there was more discussion of these things . and classes would teach them more.

[oberliner]

12. Here's the story behind that first photo

This famous photograph by Horace Cort shows a group of white and black integrationists in the former Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool on June 18, 1964. The photo was connected to the St. Augustine Movement, named for the town in Florida where it took place. Lots of peaceful protests and demonstrations were responded to with violence, which lead to more and more complicated protests.

On June 11, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr was arrested for trespassing at the Monson Motor Lodge after being asked to leave from its segregated restaurant. This (and other things) helped spurn on a group of protesters, black and white, to jump into the pool as a strategically planned event to end segregation at motel pools. The pool at this motel was designated “white only.” Whites who paid for motel rooms invited blacks to join them in the motel pool as their guests. This swim-in was planned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and two associates. The motel manager, Jimmy Brock, in an effort to break up the party, poured a bottle of muriatic acid into the pool, hoping the swimmers would become scared and leave. One swimmer, who knew that the ratio of acid to pool water was so great that the acid was no longer a threat, drank some of the pool water to calm the other swimmers’ fears.

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/motel-manager-pouring-acid-water-black-people-swam-pool-1964/

[sheshe2]

13. Ugly!

[Ed Suspicious]

14. Weren't the Chicago race riots in 1919 set off by white people throwing rocks

at black swimmers enjoying the white part of Lake Michigan?

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. kick

[JI7]

17. anyone remember this from 2009 where black and hispanic kids were told not to use a pool ?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8043735

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18. kick