Jim Crow at the Beach: An Oral and Archival History of the Segregated Past at Homestead Bayfront Park
Lowman I. 2012. Jim Crow at the Beach: An Oral and Archival History of the Segregated Past at Homestead Bayfront Park. NPS Biscayne National Park. Homestead, Florida
This report describes and examines the events at Homestead Bayfront Park / Beach, a public park and beach in Homestead, Florida which, during the segregation of the 1950s and 1960s, became two racially divided but adjacent beaches. The grounds of the former Homestead Bayfront Beach North, the separate beach developed in the mid-1950s to separate people of color from white beach-goers, is today part of Biscayne National Park and the site of the park’s visitor center and headquarters.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Lowman, Iyshia
- Date of Issue
- 2012-12
- Publisher
- NPS Biscayne National Park
- Units
- BISC
- Keywords
- Beach, Biscayne National Monument, Biscayne National Park, Black Beach, Blacks, Colored Beach, Discrimination, Elliot Key, Florida, Florida Keys, Homestead, Homestead Bayfront Park, Jim Crow, Matheson Hammock, Miami-Dade County, Oral History, Parks and Recreation, Segregation, South Florida