Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m not denying this didn’t happen. This simply didn’t happen in many of these neighborhoods because these neighborhoods were’t neighborhoods, they were farms. There weren’t people, there weren’t public pools.
The county rec centers with pools opened in the late 70s/ early 80s.
In the 1950’s, there weren’t many pools in general, but it was not an oversight that Arlington did not build community pools, when their older neighboring communities did have them. In dc, when the public pools were desegregated, Black kids were bussed in, there was conflict at the anacostia pool, and sentiments were heated about desegregation.
https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2020/08/05/washington-dc-public-pools/
There is no way that the founders of the nova private pools were not influenced by current events and general sentiment against desegregation. DC pools were the first pools to undergo federally mandated desegregation and it was very contentious. Dc was the first place in the country to have desegregated pools and just happens to have the highest density of private pool clubs.
https://www.fcnp.com/2015/07/29/our-man-in-arlington-137/
https://library.arlingtonva.us/2024/07/24/swimming-away-the-dog-days/
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