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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the info!

I’ll take a look at all the info posted

One question I do have. I came from an area where cities/villages had public pools and most summer teams swam/competed out of those pools. I was shocked to see all the small outdoor pools littered throughout Annandale. Most with teams as well. Can anyone shed light on this? Why/how this came about?[/quote]

White people did not want to swim in desegregated pools. I grew up in the south and often the answer to “why is this the way it is?” is often Jim Crowe.

https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213675/racial-history-of-american-swimming-pools

Do yourself a favor and go to the job boards at USA swimming and swimswam. This is an anonymous board of swim parents. [/quote]

This article is a wonderful national trend, but really not relevant to the hyper-local reason for the large number of pools that developers built as the chief amenity of so many Fairfax neighborhoods in the 60s and 70s.  [/quote]

It’s not just a coincidence that private pool clubs opened just as the Supreme Court ordered public pools to desegregate. Public pools were often closed, like the Leesburg pool, rather than allow it to become desegregated. With fewer public pools and a population of wealthy White people who wanted to enjoy the pool, private pool clubs was the logical next step. Neighborhoods opened their own pool, much like the private schools that were opened when schools were desegregated. It happened all over the U.S., not just in the south.

https://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-history-of-segregated-swimming-pools-and-amusement-parks-119586

https://southerneducation.org/publications/history-of-private-schools-and-race-in-the-american-south/

There’s an instinct to deny history because it seems to imply the institutions are sullied in some way. It doesn’t mean that the private pool clubs are racist today or should be shut down or anything. It’s just the way it happened, and it’s worthwhile to be aware of it. Places like Princeton and Harvard were directly involved in the slave trade. Many universities and colleges in the early 20th century had quotas for Catholics and other Protestants. Forest hills tennis club in queens, host of the U.S. open, didn’t allow a Black member until 1978. Saying that racism shaped our present institutions doesn’t mean that they are racist today. But we shouldn’t deny that the past happened. [/quote]

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