Macon closed public pools rather than desegregate them

Evidence

In a city where public swimming pools had been closed to prevent black children from swimming with white children after public facilities were legally desegregated, the practice of becoming united in the same spiritual fellowship, through the intimate symbols of shared bread and wine, is nothing short of radical. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 586

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Retributive racial violence functioned to reassure whites of racial dominance — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 633