White sand, black beach : civil rights, public space, and Miami's Virginia Key /
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Author / Creator: | Bush, Gregory Wallace, author. |
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Imprint: | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11406714 |
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.