Pool Segregation Put KC in Spotlight
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Pool Segregation Put KC in Spotlight
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Story relates how on January 15, 1952, Thurgood Marshall, later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, led this area's civil rights cause concerning the desegregation of the all white Swope Park Swimming Pool. Story quotes from Senior U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs, then a law clerk to federal judge Albert Ridge, and Alvin Brooks, current Kansas City mayor pro tem. Includes a post card image of Swope Park pool and a photograph of Parade Park pool at 17th and the Paseo.
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2002-01-15
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The Kansas City Star
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The Swope Park pool reopened in June 1954 as an integrated pool after having been shut down the previous two years. Attendance showed 48,301 admission fees compared to 90,146 in 1950.
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Vertical File: African Americans--Kansas City, Missouri--History
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This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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