“Deep Pool Takes Life of Student. Companions Fail In Effort to Rescue Eugene McKinley,” Portsmouth Daily Times (10 June 1961).
This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
Media coverage of McKinley's drowning helped generate support for the construction of an integrated swimming pool in Portsmouth, Ohio.
This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
On Friday, June 9th, 1961, McKinley and a group of other African American school boys went swimming in a flooded sand and gravel pit that had recently been dug in the bottoms of the Scioto River. It was the last day of school and the students were…