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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bush, Gregory Wallace, author.
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century. Civil rights -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights. Race relations. Virginia Key (Miami, Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Miami (Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Florida -- Miami. Florida -- Miami -- Virginia Key. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11406714

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ISBN:	9780813055831 0813055830 9780813062648 0813062640
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Bush, Gregory Wallace. White sand, black beach. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 9780813062648

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.

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