[3] Carson Beach bathhouse was built in 1925 to serve local residents as a changing room and field house.

It was completed in 1998 and named after Edward J. McCormack Jr. who is a native of South Boston and served as the Massachusetts Attorney General from 1959–1963.

[citation needed] The new bathhouse includes three pavilion, food and recreation stands and men's and women's bathrooms.

On August 10, 1975, hundreds of Black Bostonians gathered for a peaceful protest "to assert their right to use Boston’s public spaces".

August 3, 1977 was the final day of a two-week racist clash over access to who was allowed to use the Carson Beach and its bathhouses.

[5] Local white beachgoers were upset that Black and Hispanic people from the neighboring Columbia Point projects were using the beach.

This event was close to cancelled due to a racist message made by the head of Dorchester's Currach Club, which consisted of 40 Irish immigrants.

The meetings were attended by state and city officials, local black community leaders and Alex Rodriguez, who was the commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination.

[9] On July 26, 2016, a 7-year-old boy from Boston named Kyzr Willis drowned while attending a city-sanctioned summer camp at the Curley Community Center.

This law requires that daycare programs provide Coast Guard approved flotation devices to all participants who can not swim.