Planning the Eugene McKinley Memorial Swimming (4 August 1962)
This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
"Portsmouth Jaycees meet with representatives of the community recreational society. Pictured from left to right: Bill Coleman, Don Rindfuss standing; Orville Ferguson, Bob Newman, Rev. Melvin Bateman, Earl Felty, Bob Craft.”
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…