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Almost fifteen years ago, my friend Lee Pitts and I created an exhibit at the International Swimming Hall of Fame entitled: \u201cBlack Splash: The history of swimming in black and white.\u201d When we made it into a multi-media presentation for an audience, Sabir<\/strong> Muhammad<\/strong> joined us as a presenter along with Charles Chapman<\/strong>, the first African American to conquer the English Channel. It coincided with the early writings of Professors Kevin Dawson<\/strong> and Jeff Wiltse<\/strong> and the exhibit combined much of their research into telling the story. But\u2026.that exhibit skipped over a major part of black swimming history that has yet to be told. This is the story of the thriving competitive swimming culture in the black communities during the era of Jim Crow, Separate but Unequal America.<\/p>\n

The difficulty in recovering this history is that black competitive swimming was almost totally ignored by the white press and the mainstream leadership of the AAU, YMCA, NCAA and high school swimming. But the internet is still an amazing resource. For example, the images on the photo accompanying this article were retrieved from the Tennessee State University yearbooks that are digitized online. Further research about meet results can be verified through www.newspapers.com, which has a few black papers among their massive archive. And although we\u2019ve only scratched the tip of the iceberg, we are starting to re-rewrite swimming history.<\/p>\n

One of the most amazing of facts discovered is that more than 60 years before we thought Cullen Jones<\/strong> became the first African-American world-record holder on a relay team, Frank Stewart<\/strong> was part of one as a member of the Great Lakes Naval Base team. One of his teammates was the great Joe Verdeur<\/strong>, the Michael Phelps of his day. Stewart was considered to be \u201cthe greatest negro swimmer of his era (1940\u2019s).\u201d Why had I never heard of him? Other than meet results and that he graduated from Tennessee A&I (an HBCU), we know almost nothing about him.<\/p>\n

In 1941, a swimmer from the Brewster Recreation Center, Bucky Washington<\/strong>, won the Michigan AAU 100 freestyle championship at the Brennan Pools in Rouge Park. His time for the event would have been in the top eight of the AAU outdoor nationals that year, had he attended.<\/p>\n

Another surprising discovery was Leroy Jones<\/strong>, the great black sprinter of the 1950s. This Jones was the first African American to compete for an HBCU in the NCAA Championships, and was possibly the first African American to do so for any school. While his times during the season in the 50 and 100 were good enough to qualify for the finals, he was off at his two NCAA appearances. I understand he passed away in 2016 in Texas. We need to learn more about him and his experiences swimming in the NCAA Championships.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned as we discover more black swimming history – and be a history detective yourself. There was competitive swimming and diving going on in America before the 1960s in nearly every state. Help tell the story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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