Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

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Nile Swim Club

African-American children in a segregated swimming pool at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1955.

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With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.

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