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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813055831
  • 0813055830
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: White sand, black beach.DDC classification:
  • 323.1196/0730759381 23
LOC classification:
  • F319.M6 B87 2016eb
Online resources:
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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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