Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool, Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 409 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: Summer 2017

This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”

Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool, Portsmouth, Ohio

Portsmouth residents enjoy "fun in the sun with everyone" at the Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool.

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”

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

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…