Wiltse, Jeff. <br/><br/>
Contested waters  a social history of swimming pools in America /  [electronic resource] : 
Jeff Wiltse. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  c2007. 
 - x, 276 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : "just don't touch the water" -- A "peculiar kind" of bath : the origin of municipal pools in America -- "A means of physical culture" : the redefinition of municipal pools during the 1890s -- "A good investment in health, character, and citizenship" : municipal swimming pools in the Progressive Era -- Interlude : the traumatic early history of Fairgrounds Park Pool -- The "swimming pool age" : 1920 to 1940 -- "One for the white race and the other for the colored race" : the onset of racial discrimination, 1920 to 1940 -- "More sensitive than schools" : the struggle to desegregate municipal swimming pools -- "Alone in the backyard" : swimming pools in recent America -- Conclusion : the promise and reality of swimming pools as public spaces. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Swimming pools--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Swimming pools--History.--United States
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV838.53.S85  / W55 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/81