$1,795,847 District Deficiency Measure is Now Up To Senate
Item
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.
Source
The Washington Post
Date
06/05/1924
Coverage
1920-1949
topic
civil rights
everyday life
ghost mall
work & play