The Montgomery Public Pool

The montgomery pool was grand and beautiful, a public work for all, but not really all. Like so many public pools across the country, the mont Montgomery pool was reserved for whites only. In 19 fifties black families argued in courts that their tax dollars also funded these public goods,. so their kid should be able to swim in them too. And when they couldn't, the results could be tragic. A 13 year old boy, tommy cummings, a black boy, drowned in the rough waters of the patapsco river because there was no inegrated pool where he and his friends, two white and one black, were allowed to swim together. The n a