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Title
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Pool Segregation Put KC in Spotlight
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Description
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Story relates how on January 15, 1952, Thurgood Marshall, later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, led this area's civil rights cause concerning the desegregation of the all white Swope Park Swimming Pool. Story quotes from Senior U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs, then a law clerk to federal judge Albert Ridge, and Alvin Brooks, current Kansas City mayor pro tem. Includes a post card image of Swope Park pool and a photograph of Parade Park pool at 17th and the Paseo.
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Date
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2002-01-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article