Miami Times and the Fight for Equality

Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948–1958

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Yanela G. McLeod, Yanela G McLeod

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This book helps inject the Miami Times into the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida by highlighting its role in Rice v Arnold, a 1949 lawsuit filed by black recreational golfers in Miami to oppose segregation on the city’s public golf course. Founded in 1923 by Bahamian-born H.E.S. Reeves who ran the newspaper with his son Garth C. Reeves Sr., the newspaper financially and editorially supported efforts to desegregate Miami schools, beaches, residential communities, public transportation systems and sports complexes. Its support of the Rice v Arnold legal challenge is but one example that demonstrates how the newspaper, as a conduit of social change, worked with other Miami community leaders to improve conditions for the city’s black population.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-03
Mått159 x 242 x 18 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSport, Identity, and Culture
Antal sidor198
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498576635

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Chapter 1: Teed OffChapter 2: Why Golf?Chapter 3: From Printer to Publisher: H.E.S. Reeves and the Miami TimesChapter 4: We Wish to Plead our Own Cause: The Black Press of AmericaChapter 5: Word Warriors: Vigilant Headlines of the Miami TimesChapter 6: The Negro Golf Experience in the United StatesChapter 7: Chipping Away At SegregationChapter 8: From Putting Greens to Judicial CourtsChapter 9: Sand Traps in the Sunshine: Obstacles Toward VictoryChapter 10: “We Do Not Want to be Equal – We Want to be the Same”Chapter 11: Fairer Greens

The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality provides insight into the Miami Times’ decade long civil rights activism that helped desegregate the Miami Springs Municipal Golf Course. Nearly 100 years after relocating to Miami, this family-owned newspaper continues to feature community pride and record the practices of racial discrimination in the era of Jim Crow with the history of civil rights and wrongs. An excellent book for students and others interested in American history and the desegregation of the Miami Springs Golf Course case, this-well documented book serves as a timely reminder of a bygone era, adds value to the literature, and helps confirm the legacy of the Miami Times and the Reeves family in Miami and Florida’s history.