The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality
Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 19481958
By (author) Yanela G. McLeod
Publication date:
03 December 2018Length of book:
198 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
242x159mm6x10"
ISBN-13: 9781498576635
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.
As well as adding to the history of the black press' involvement in the long civil rights movement, The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality will be of particular interest to historians interested in Florida history, and more generally to graduate students and scholars fascinated by the intersection of sport and race.