Bush, Gregory Wallace, <br/><br/>
White sand, black beach :  civil rights, public space, and Miami's Virginia Key / 
Gregory W. Bush. 
 - Gainesville :  University Press of Florida,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813055831 
<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/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F319  / .W458 2016