Dreamland Pool Postcard

ID: 841 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History Archive, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.

This file appears in: Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Pool: Non-violent Direct Action at the Terrace Club

View of Dreamland Pool, with a barbed wire chainlink fence in the immediate foreground. Pictured from this spot in time and place, the fence is a reminder that the Terrace Club was operated as a whites-only private recreation center, which featured a massive swimming pool. Although the pool was first named Dreamland when it was built in 1929, it was operated as a private club known as the Terrace Club until 1965 when its owners integrated the pool and changed the name back to Dreamland.

This file appears in: Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Pool: Non-violent Direct Action at the Terrace Club

Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Pool: Non-violent Direct Action at the Terrace Club

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

By the summer of 1964, the Civil Right’s Movement had picked up momentum and direct actions aimed at integrating white-only public accommodations and places of amusement, such as swimming pools, had…