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A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and may be found as a ...
Swimming emerged as a competitive sport in the early 1800s in England. In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths, was opened to the public. [12] By 1837, the National Swimming Society was holding regular swimming competitions in six artificial swimming pools, built around London.
Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City "Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing.
Access to swimming pools has long been hotly contested in America. Giant municipal pools were built in the first half of the twentieth century, and desegregating public pools was a key target of ...
When swimming first became popular in America, pools were segregated by gender and class, not race. At the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, municipal pools were built in the north mainly for poor, urban, working-class Americans and used as bathing sites. [1]
Majority-Black communities like those epitomize what Jeff Wiltse, author of “Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America,” described as having been hardest hit by the ...
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Thus, USA Swimming was born. [12] From 1978 to 1980, the official responsibilities of governing the sport were transferred from the AAU Swimming Committee to the new United States Swimming. Bill Lippman, the last head of the Swimming Committee, and Ross Wales, the first president of United States Swimming, worked together to ease the transition.