Aaaw, that's so nice.

Bless his heart 😍

A well dressed, dignified family

They were way ahead of there time 😂

Those look like two incredibly strong women.

Never needs batteries

Such a lovely grin!

The happiness in this photo is wonderful.

Good man, David! You and your fellow campaigners made the world a better place. But there's still a long way to go.

The fact that only one child smiled while others looked scared really says it all. Good on you, David! 👏

What a brave and terrifying thing to do at that time.

I like the mundaneness of the picture. It's like "There's nothing to see here" and to a degree that's right. But then you get into the context and you realize how important it was.

I remember people freaking out when a person of color went into the pool in the 1970s - the only thing polluting the pool though were the racist pieces of garbage

YES DAVID! I APPLAUD YOU.

1958... US is real third world

That took guts..

I'm ashamed to be put into the same race category as the pieces of scum that were the officials at this time! WTF were they thinking!? I hope they are rotting in he**!

These people didn't make the world a better place. Racism is so bad that the white jerks would rather close facilities and hurt themselves instead of sharing with black people.

Stupid Florida

David Isom, you're awesome! <3

Most of the kids look shocked....but there's one kid that looks like he's smiling. (left)

A stunningly beautiful African-American actress, Dorothy Dandridge, dipped her TOE into a swimming pool, meant for whites only, at a Las Vegas hotel, and they DRAINED the freaking pool. How stupid ARE people?

David's Lil smirk says it all

If people weren't so uneducated and racist I'm guessing that we wouldn't have half the issues we have now.

It's so hard to imagine that we were so damned racist and cruel. I'm ashamed of that fact.

Good for you, David! You had every right to be there 👍

When Isom entered the establishment, about 45 white people were already present at the pool. He said that they paid little attention to him and treated him politely. Tommy Chinnis, the lifeguard at duty, said that he “was like everyone else”. However, 20 minutes into his departure, John Gough, the pool’s manager put a ‘closed’ sign on the entrance. Gough said that he was acting on the orders of Ross Windom, the city manager. Windom told him to close the pool because “a n**** had used the facilities”. Thereafter the Spa pool and the Spa beach were closed. However, the city council reopened the facilities shortly and in 1959, the new city manager George K. Armes declared that they are to be kept open unless there is trouble.

Sad the way Caucasian act towards people of other ethnic groups. Humanity started surprise on the African continent.

I'm sad to be categorized with ppl who had these trash rules that used to be in place. So ignorant what a joke. No human or other animal chose to look the way they look. And no one is better or much different than the other.

Ya. I love this.

And Florida is still mad about it

Funny how this did not happen where I grew up in the 50's We had both, no one thought a thing about it.

The kids are probably staring at his physique as much as his color. A very skinny fellow.

Proud walk, love it!

No one turned black afterward?