Contested Waters by Wiltse Jeff

Author:Wiltse, Jeff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Colonial Park Pool, Harlem, New York, 1937. Through location and devious administration, New York public officials encouraged de facto segregation at its WPA swimming pools. New York City Parks Photo Archive, neg. M-14, 12482.

with the West Chicago Park Commissioners, reported to American City that “there are 15 swimming pools in the West Park system. Among these, two are used by both white and colored people. The others are used entirely by the white race. In the two pools first mentioned, the colored race predominates.” Similarly, Detroit’s commissioner of recreation, C. E. Brewer, noted in 1932 that “attendance is over 95 percent colored” at two pools located within the city’s black belt, which meant that some of the swimmers were white. Mixed-race swimming clearly continued into the 1930s in some northern cities, but it occurred primarily at pools intended for African Americans or at pools that remained gender segregated.60

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