The Importance of Integrating Public Pools

The book tells the story of a 13-year-old boy named Tommy Cummings, who was a black boy in Baltimore in 1953. He drowned because it is much more dangerous to swim in a river than it is to swim in public swimming pool with a life guard. The kids are shocked and they get it immediately, right? They say, well, everybody lost out then. And then they ask me questions like, who told white people that black people were bad? Great question. Why did those white people tell? Right. Who first came up with the idea that blacks were bad? So I tell them about racism being an excuse, a justification for greed. We talk about poverty and inequality