Journal-World newspaper archives from July 1960 show pickets of the Jayhawk Plunge, a segregated swimming pool. One of the stark markers of segregation in Lawrence was that white children swam in a ...

Ursula Minor, Lawrence NAACP branch president, speaks Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, at a dedication of a historical marker commemorating the 1969 opening of the city's first integrated swimming pool. The ...

At 42, Tameka Bostick decided she wanted to learn how to swim. Bostick said she tried to sign her teenager up for lessons, too, but her daughter said she wanted her mother to learn to swim first. "'Ma ...

CHARLOTTE - Once, long ago, Revolution Swimming Pool was the place for young residents of Charlotte to see each other and be seen. Later, it became a place of history and controversy as the first ...

Editor’s note: The Swope Park swimming pool reopened in 1954, this time to swimmers of all races. The pool had been closed for two summers during a civil rights legal battle. After a 1951 lawsuit ...

In Curto v. A Country Place Condominium Association, No. 18-1212 (3d Cir. Apr. 22, 2019), the Third Circuit held that the federal Fair Housing Act forbade a condominium association from enforcing a ...