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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 ...
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… ...
While Florida has become more diverse over the past two decades, its schools have grown increasingly segregated. And nowhere is the problem more acute than in Miami.
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 ...
Fran Sokol Hertz grew up in Miami during the mid 20th century. She recalls attending Shenandoah Elementary, Shenandoah Junior High and Miami High School: ‘Overall, these were the best of times.
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 ...
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 ...
Looking at the future of Virginia Key Beach 02:19. MIAMI - The future of Virginia Key Beach remains in question after Miami commissioners voted to remove the board of trustees overseeing improvements.
Learn local history and voice your concerns about area landmarks at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library auditorium. Developer Bruce Thompson will describe the restoration… ...
TALLAHASSEE — Although Florida is becoming a more racially diverse state, its public-school system is becoming more segregated, a new study from the LeRoy Collins Institute shows. “Stud… ...