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”
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…