The outdoor swimming pool at Raleigh’s Pullen Park is gone, replaced by a plaque that recounts a history tied to the Jim Crow South.
In the early 1960s, swimming pools in North Carolina began to integrate under court orders and civil rights protests, though resistance persisted.
During the summer of 1962, four Black teenagers, joined by two White friends, jumped into the Pullen Park pool, where they were unwelcome. For decades, only White people were allowed to swim there…