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Author Bush, Gregory Wallace, author

Title White sand, black beach : civil rights, public space, and Miami's Virginia Key / Gregory W. Bush
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

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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
Summary 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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
SUBJECT Virginia Key (Miami, Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Miami (Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Florida -- Miami
Florida -- Miami -- Virginia Key
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813055831
0813055830
0813051622
9780813051628