Pool: A Social History of Segregation, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia

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Review| May 01 2023 Pool: A Social History of Segregation, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia Pool: A Social History of Segregation. Victoria Prizzia, Curator. Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, PA. March–September, 2022 (Reopened March 23, 2023). https://www.poolphl.com/ Kendra D. Boyd Kendra D. Boyd Rutgers University-Camden Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (2): 134–138. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.134 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kendra D. Boyd; Pool: A Social History of Segregation, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia. The Public Historian 1 May 2023; 45 (2): 134–138. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.134 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Pool: A Social History of Segregation explores race and public pools in the United States as well as African Americans’ relationship with water over time. Funded through a $260,000 grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, the 4,700-square-foot exhibition was originally scheduled to open in September of 2021 but was delayed due to flooding from Hurricane Ida. After six months of restoration efforts, the exhibit opened on March 22, 2022, which fittingly was World Water Day. The majority of the exhibit is located in and around the Kelly Natatorium, known as the Kelly Pool, within the Fairmount Water Works building. This indoor pool opened in 1961 as an Olympic training facility, and later became a public pool. The city of Philadelphia closed Kelly Pool in 1972, when flooding from Hurricane Agnes damaged the natatorium, and it subsequently fell into disrepair.1 This location has been brilliantly repurposed for... You do not currently have access to this content.