Pools and beaches have been the site of some of the worst racial violence in US history. The water has also been the locale of monumental racial progress— progress that desperately needs to be continued today.

Learn 100 years of forgotten history in just 25 minutes, and you'll see why it's worth remembering.

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Sources: NPR, Racial History of America and Swimming Pools; Britannica, Chicago Race Riot of 1919; ARD, How Wade-Ins Helped Desegregate the Country; The Guardian, America’s segregated shores: beaches' long history as a racial battleground; Smithsonian Mag, Racism Kept Connecticut’s Beaches White Up Through the 1970s; BBC, Why don’t Black Americans Swim?