$1,795,847 District Deficiency Measure is Now Up To Senate One of the line items in the proposed 1924 appropriations for the District of Columbia was $50,000 for a bathing beach at the Tidal Basin for the African American residents of the District. While <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/164">white residents had enjoyed a formal beach since 1918</a>, an equivalent for blacks was never established. In 1925, the Senate not only chose not to approve funding for a "colored beach," but <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/185">cut out all funding for the white beach,</a> solving the question of equal facilities for white and black by <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/185http://mallhistory.org/items/show/195">closing all the beaches</a>. <em>The Washington Post</em> 06/05/1924 <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1920-1949">1920-1949</a>