New music venue honors Spencer family, who desegregated Sunlite Pool

CINCINNATI (WXIX) -In 1952, Marian and Donald Spencer’s sons were told they couldn’t swim in Coney Island’s Sunlite Pool because they were Black, according to our media partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Now the Spencers are set to be honored with a “water monument” near the site of the now-closed pool.

The memorial honoring the legacy of the two Civil Rights trailblazers will go up alongside the future Farmer Music Center in Cincinnati…

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