165 wade in
"The wade-in is a method designed to counter racial discrimination in the use of beaches which are physically accessible to the public (i.e., not surrounded by fences, etc.) and for which tickets are not required. The opponents of racial discrimination simply enter the area and make normal use of the beach and water without regard to restrictive customs or legal prohibition. An interracial group of seventy-five from the Youth Work Committee of the Chicago National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for example, conducted a wade-in at Rainbow Beach on Lake Michigan, in the South Shore of Chicago, from July 16 to the end of the summer 1961.81"...
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Citizens stop development companies’ destruction of bay habitat in Manatee County, Florida, 2013
On 6 June 2013, developers Carlos Beruff and Larry Lieberman asked Florida’s Manatee County Commission for environmental exceptions and zoning changes to Long Bar Pointe, a 523-acre area of land along Sarasota Bay. In 2012, Lieberman, the land’s owne...
African Americans march for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida, 1963-64
As the nationwide struggle for civil rights in the United States, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, continued into 1964, tension between civil rights activists and the city government was rising in St. Augustine, Florida. Public institutions remaine...
Florida wade-ins to end racial segregation of public beach and pools (Civil Rights Movement) 1945-1964
In a time that many considered the “post-Jim Crow” era, racial segregation of unequal public facilities remained the norm throughout Florida. First expressed in the Fort Lauderdale Daily News in 1927, African American communities were unhappy with be...
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