history of the nile swim club

On September 30 1958 organizers in Yeadons African-American community established a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation called the Nile Swim Club of Yeadon. In 2021 the Nile Swim Club was awarded a State Historical Marker as the oldest African American owned membership swim club.

Nile Swim Club To Receive State Historical Marker Yeadon Borough

Nile Swim Club in Yeadon was designated a historical site by Pennsylvania Saturday receiving its own historic marker at a ribbon-cutting ceremony writes Nathaniel Lee.

. Settlers from Connecticut originally purchased. Nile Swim Club in Yeadon was designated a historic site by Pennsylvania recently receiving its own historical marker at a ribbon-cutting ceremony writes Nathaniel Lee for The. Unusual for the creation of the Nile Swim Club.

Discover more as members of the Nile Swim Club. Five Historic Pools and Swimming Holes in Pennsylvania. Nile Swim Club 513 S.

The club is now the oldest historically Black-owned pool in the country. June 10 2020 by Elizabeth Shultz 2 Comments. NSC Board of Governors.

Three African-American families created Nile Swim Club in 1958 after being denied membership to another private pool. We want to be as flexible as possible and work with the Nile Swim Club To many in Yeadon this campaign is personal. Three African-American families started the Nile Swim Club in 1958 after being refused membership at another private pool.

Opened in 1959 in the face of a local white swim club refusing to permit African Americans to become members the Nile Swim Club describes itself on its website as the first. Since its historic opening on Saturday July 11 1959 the Nile has opened both its heart and doors to all people regardless of race creed or color. The club is now the oldest black-owned.

In response Carson Puriefoy Elmer Stewart and Zoe Mask and seven black families incorporated the non-profit Nile Swim Club to serve the children and families of their. The NSC was established in 1958 after two African American families applied. Maplewood Township today best reflects its early-twentieth-century suburban history yet it has roots dating back to the seventeenth century.

The Nile Swim Club NSC is a member owned and operated 501c3 non-profit corporation located in Yeadon PA. The club offers swim lessons splash parties. Moses said that the Nile Swim Club of Yeadon was a Pennsylvania treasure for its singular role as perhaps the first owned and operated African-American Swim Club in the entire.

The Nile Swim Club came into being out of this same giddy post-war optimism but at the same time like so many black institutions had its roots in the wounded heart of America. Throughout the years and to. Their first step was to create a non-profit corporation and in February 1958 the Nile Swim Club of Yeadon was officially formed.

The Nile traces its roots to 1957 when several African.

Yeadon S Nile Swim Club Earns Place In History As 1st Black Owned U S Swim Club