Tag: Jim Crow

Free Swim Lessons Should be Offered in School as Reparations to Black Families

Free Swim Lessons Should be Offered in School as Reparations to Black Families

During slavery and Jim Crow, black people were barred from learning how to swim as a means to handicap them and have them remain reliant on their owners and limit their freedom. After slavery and segregation ended, black people were terrorized by white pool-owners for taking up spaces in supposedly public pools. There are images […]

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