White sand, black beach : civil rights, public space, and Miami's Virginia Key

White sand, black beach : civil rights, public space, and Miami's Virginia Key / Gregory W. Bush.

Combining archival research and oral history, Bush examines Virginia Key Beach as a window into local activism and forms of black-white dialogue in multicultural Miami from 1915 to 2012.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bush, Gregory Wallace (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Subjects:
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > Florida > Miami > History > 20th century.
Civil rights > Florida > Miami > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > African American.
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights
Race relations
Virginia Key (Miami, Fla.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Miami (Fla.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Florida > Miami
Florida > Miami > Virginia Key
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The struggle for the civil right to public space in Miami
  • Wade-in: Lawson Thomas and the potent combination of direct action and negotiation
  • Beyond colored town: the changing boundaries of race relations and African American community
  • Life in Miami, 1896-1945
  • Island pleasures: memories of African American life at Virginia Key Beach
  • The shifting sands of civil rights in southeast Florida, 1945-1976
  • Public land by the sea: developing Virginia Key, 1945-1976
  • The erosion of a "world-class" urban paradise: tourism, the environmental movement, and planning
  • Related to Virginia Key Beach, 1982-1998
  • Forging our civil right to public space, 1999-2015
  • Afterword: The real Miami; better than a theme park.

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