Portrait of Dr. James Forrest Scott, Scioto County Coroner
This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
Dr. James Forrest Scott and the Portsmouth Chapter of the NAACP helped plan the "wade-in" at the Terrace Club Swimming Pool, which led to the end of Jim Crow in Portsmouth.
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…