By Sam Jack, sjack@newtonplks.org Newton Public Library’s Digital Newton, Kansas, is a history resource, providing online access to local history video and audio interviews collected by library staff and volunteers in the 1970s and 1980s. I recently spent some time exploring the collection, and I was struck by the stories not only of Newton’s history,…
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By Sam Jack, sjack@newtonplks.org In 1934, before they approved the construction of a municipal pool in Athletic Park, Newton’s town fathers needed to figure out how they would keep Black people out. The story of how they succeeded, of how they kept an illegal “whites only” policy in place through 17 steamy summers, has gained…
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