![African-American children in a segregated swimming pool at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1955.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/513065409-Reduced-550x550.webp)
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With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
A July 1964 protest at the United Nations headquarters in New York City began after the murder of 15-year-old African American James Powell by Thomas Gilligan, a white, off-duty police officer.
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