Swimming while black: the legacy of segregated public pools lives on

White Americans are twice as likely to know how to swim as black Americans, a deadly statistic that persists since public and private pools became off limits to African Americans decades ago

Last summer, as temperatures soared to the high 90s in Alabama, Terrell Goodson’s 10-year-old daughter only had one request.

“Dad, can you please teach me how to swim?”

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