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Exclusion, measured where it can be measured: the pool that never existed

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AUDIT ROW #392 · ACCOMMODATIONS AND AMENITIES, AT THE RECORD'S SIZE

Exclusion is measured by what it barred people from, and on this ground the standard instruments mostly do not exist to be barred from: Walkerton has no public pool — so there was no pool to integrate and no pool fight to record — and its lodging exclusion is measured in the hotels leg's Green Book test, cross-referenced below. What remains measurable at this size is stated: the town's amenities across the era were its park, its school, its library branch, and its churches, and no segregation order, whites-only notice, or accommodation refusal seated in Walkerton stands in the records reached. That is not printed as innocence — a town of this composition had little need of written exclusion to be effectively closed, and the demographic articles above carry that point — it is printed as the record's state: the written instruments of exclusion that larger places generated were not generated here, at reached strength, and the settler for a refusal preserved in private memory is the oral-history record, named here.

Principal sources: Parks (no pool), pointed to; the hotels addendum (the Green Book test), cross-referenced; settler named — oral-history collections (county library and society).

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Source: Exclusion, measured where it can be measured: the pool that never existed, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/black-history/exclusion-measured-where-it-can-be-measured-the-pool/