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.

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Portsmouth Daily Times Headline for Wade-In 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

Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Pool

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

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