Wade-In at Terrace Club Pool
This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”

"Swim Pool Wade-In. Detective William Combs and Captain Ray Thompson donned bathing trunks to lead the Negroes from the water. There were no incidents, and one swimmer shook hands with one of the Negro group when it entered the pool. The six were charged with trespassing.”
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”
Portsmouth, Ohio’s only city-owned, public pool was built to memorialize the drowning death of fourteen-year-old resident Eugene McKinley, the son of George and Ruth McKinley, who lived at 1212-E…