$1,795,847 District Deficiency Measure is Now Up To Senate

Title

$1,795,847 District Deficiency Measure is Now Up To Senate

Description

One of the line items in the proposed 1924 appropriations for the District of Columbia was $50,000 for a bathing beach at the Tidal Basin for the African American residents of the District. While white residents had enjoyed a formal beach since 1918, an equivalent for blacks was never established. In 1925, the Senate not only chose not to approve funding for a "colored beach," but cut out all funding for the white beach, solving the question of equal facilities for white and black by closing all the beaches.

Date

06/05/1924

Source

The Washington Post

Coverage

1920-1949

Theme

civil rights

everyday life

ghost mall

work & play