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

Author/creator Bush, Gregory Wallace
Format Electronic
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Descriptionxiii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
African Americans--Civil rights. --Florida. --Miami. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights--Florida. --Miami. --History. --20th century.
Virginia Key (Miami, Fla.)--Race relations. --History. --20th century.
Miami (Fla.)--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

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.
Scope and content 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016015363
ISBN9780813062648 (cloth)