Miami Times and the Fight for Equality - Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 19481958

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Teed Off

Chapter 2: Why Golf?

Chapter 3: From Printer to Publisher: H.E.S. Reeves and the Miami Times

Chapter 4: We Wish to Plead our Own Cause: The Black Press of America

Chapter 5: Word Warriors: Vigilant Headlines of the Miami Times

Chapter 6: The Negro Golf Experience in the United States

Chapter 7: Chipping Away At Segregation

Chapter 8: From Putting Greens to Judicial Courts

Chapter 9: Sand Traps in the Sunshine: Obstacles Toward Victory

Chapter 10: "We Do Not Want to be Equal - We Want to be the Same"

Chapter 11: Fairer Greens

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Yanela Gordon McLeod is adjunct professor of history and director of Communications and Alumni Affairs for the College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities at Florida A&M University.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the civil rights activism of the Miami Times between 1948 and 1958 by highlighting its effort to help abolish the “Monday-only” policy that restricted black golfers to a single day of access to the Miami Springs Municipal Golf Course.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Yanela G McLeod, Yanela G. Mcleod
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781498576659
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7665-9
• Seiten: 198
• Serie: Sport, Identity, and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; USA, Golf, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SPORTS & RECREATION / Golf, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, Social discrimination & equal treatment, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black