87-year-old Warner Singleton learned to swim in metal water tanks on philanthropist Eartha White’s property on Moncrief Road in the late 1940s.
White said the racial tensions were palpable.
“What you have is a long history of African Americans being denied access to things that are important. Water was one of the defining lines,” Bartley said. “Every time you turn around somebody was in there struggling. From the beginning. After a while, it became less and less and less, because more being were learning how to do it,” he said.“We had swim lessons every morning from 10 to 12. This place would be packed,” she said.He said the Jefferson Street pool did more than just create swimmers.
A key figure in training Singleton and the team was Jacksonville’s first Black aquatics director Julius Guinyard, a man who spent countless hours mentoring neighborhood kids at the pool, which also doubled as a recreation center.
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