americans, and outing money in a collective pot, intended to be used for a collective good, were legally barred in most states from accessing those public goods. goods like public swimming pools. despite the fact that they were helping to fund them. swimming pools were the site of a series of protests. here is a young man being arrested in 1949 after 70 black youth came to the anacostia park swimming pool in washington, d.c., and the white pool patrons refused to let them swim. and at this time, illinois pool in 1962, black youth marched for an hour, protesting the pool's whites-only policy. the 1964 civil rights act was intended to change all of that by granting equal access to public goods to the black americans who were already paying equal contributions. but what happened to public accommodations in the years after 1964 is more complicated. here are black youth swimming in a state park pool in a small georgia town in 1965. what we don't see are the white swimmers who left the pool just before the picture was taken. the civil rights act gave