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Virginia Key is at once a natural gem in Biscayne Bay and a battleground for politicos, environmentalists and social justice advocates. The island’s irresistibility places it in constant cros… ...
A 1956 photograph shows the carousel at Virginia Key Beach Beach in Miami, Florida. The park was the only beach that Black people could go to during the 1940s and ’50s amid Miami’s segregated era.
Museum in Virginia Key About Miami's Segregated Era Has Stalled for Years Voters approved taxpayer funding for a museum in 2004, but plans have been stalled by bureaucratic Catch-22s worsened by ...
“It's not like in Miami you’re sending your kids to some kind of rainbow-of-humanity school,” suggests Diem, “I don’t think everyone really knows how segregated we are in the United ...
The segregated Virginia Key Beach in the 1940s. When the city of Miami was established in 1896, there were 367 people who voted to make Miami a reality. Of those people, 162 of them were Black ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights icon murdered 50 years ago Wednesday, doesn't appear to have made any official visits to Palm Beach County, but came dozens of ...
South Florida has a legacy of being part of the segregated South. A function of that past were “Sundown Towns” - cities or areas which were “white-only” after dark. Some say that history ...
Miami’s only black beach during the days of segregation is now on the National Registry of Historic Places. Virginia Key Beach became a significant landmark in the black community upon its ...
A new study from Florida State University’s LeRoy Collins Institute found that the state’s schools have become more segregated over the past two decades. Miami has the highest concentration of ...
REFUGEES: The state of Florida has set guidelines requiring school districts to accept students and teachers fleeing the islands hit hardest by Hurricane Maria. But the rules are less giving ...