Atlanta, Georgia
In St. Louis, where the Dred Scott case was tried, the cause of racial tolerance seemed to be looking up last week...But when the city opened all of its swimming pools to Negros on June 21 for the first time in history, progress stopped. That afternoon police had to escort 40 Negro swimmers through a wall of 200 sullen whites at the Fairground Park pool. After nightfall bands of white hoodlums took off after any Negros found anywhere near the park, beating and kicking them...Segregation was restored to St. Louis swimming pools.
‘Race Riot In St. Louis: It Is Caused By Mixed Swimming Pools.’ (1949, July 4). Life Magazine.