Segregation & public facilities
Jackson closes every public swimming pool
Pools closed 1963; closure upheld by the Supreme Court in 1971The City of Jackson's five public swimming pools, MS
Jackson desegregated its parks and its zoo but would not desegregate its pools, so it closed four and gave up the lease on the fifth. In 1971 the Supreme Court held that closing them broke no law.
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