The Social History of Swimming Pools in America

Between the age range of 11 to 12 years old, African Americans drown in swimming pools 10 times the rate of white kids. "It is a systemic thing in this country where little black kids don't learn how to swim as often," says CNN's John Sutter. The CDC has done studies and there's a professor in Montana named Jeff Wilst,. who wrote contested waters, colon, a social history of swimming pools in America.