Portsmouth Daily Times Headline for Wade-In at the Terrace Club

ID: 849 ~ 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.

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

The article headline from the Portsmouth Daily Times (18 July 1964) read: "Four Freed on Bond after Pool Entry. Negroes Charged with Trespassing at Terrace Club." Al Ebbers reported that six protesters had been arrested and that charges of trespassing had been filed by "Atty. Ormond S. Adams, president of the Terrace Club Swimming Pool, Inc., a non-profit organization."

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…