Bush, Gregory Wallace, <br/><br/>
White sand, black beach :  civil rights, public space, and Miami's Virginia Key / 
Gregory W. Bush. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813055831 0813055830 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctvwwgn7r  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Civil rights--History--Florida--Miami--20th century.<br/>Civil rights--History--Florida--Miami--20th century.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Civil Rights.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Human Rights.<br/>African Americans--Civil rights.<br/>Civil rights.<br/>Race relations.<br/>HISTORY / African American
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Virginia Key (Miami, Fla.)--Race relations--History--20th century.<br/>Miami (Fla.)--Race relations--History--20th century.<br/>Florida--Miami.<br/>Florida--Miami--Virginia Key.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F319.M6  / B87 2016eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.1196/0730759381