Wade-in at the Terrace Club

ID: 545 ~ Source: “Four Freed on Bond after Pool Entry. Negroes Charged with Trespassing at Terrace Club,” Portsmouth Daily Times (18 July 1964), Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection, Center for Public History Archive, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 1964

This file appears in: Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Pool

While the crowd waited for the swimmers to be arrested, some of the younger white swimmers jumped back in the pool in a show of solidarity. A photographer with the Portsmouth Daily Times was there to catch the moment when one of the white youths reached out to shake hands with one of the protestors. The younger generation of Portsmouth residents appear to have been ready to put aside the old Jim Crow.

This file appears in: Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Pool

Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Pool

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was now banned by federal law. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 specifically outlawed racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations. Private clubs, however,…