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American Beach : how "progress" robbed a black town-- and nation-- of history, wealth and power.Entry/Object ID
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xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
American Beach : how "progress" robbed a black town-- and nation-- of history, wealth and power by Russ Rymer.
In its heyday during the height of segregation, the country's first black seaside resort, American Beach, Florida was the African American Hyannisport, where the crème de la crème of black society came to enjoy what the town motto called "recreation and relaxation without humiliation. The book encompasses bygone black Jacksonville, the killing of an unarmed African American by Amelia Island police, the first incorporated black town in the United States, A.L. Lewis's Afro-American Life Insurance Company, and the revered Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. The second story focuses on MaVynee Betsch, a flamboyant opera singer turned penurious environmental activist, whose millionaire great-grandfather built American Beach.Collection
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African Americans -- Florida -- American Beach -- History., American Beach (Fla.) -- History., American Beach (Fla.) -- Race relations., Lewis, A. L. (Abraham Lincoln), 1865-1947., Betsch, MaVynee, 1935-2005., Cole, Johnnetta B., Hurston, Zora Neale.Publication Details
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Rymer, RussEdition
1st editionPublisher
HarperCollinsPlace Published
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New YorkCall No.
F 319 .A45 R96 1998ISBN
0060174838