cryoverkiltmilk:

hopeful-melancholy:

Eartha Kitt photographed at the pool by Isaac Sutton, 1959

Just so people don’t miss the significance, this is back when a black person sticking their TOE in the water was enough for some people to want the whole pool drained, and this picture in particular is five years before a motel owner poured acid on black people for being in a “whites-only” pool.