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In Conversation: The Miami Times: Black Justice & Equality

In Conversation: The Miami Times: Black Justice & Equality

Author:
Yanela Gordon McLeod, Green, Nadege
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Yanela McLeod‘s The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality: Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948-1958 highlights the 1949 lawsuit challenging segregation on the city’s public golf course brought by The Miami Times, the number one Black-owned newspaper in the country. It is but one example of the paper’s commitment to desegregation, and part of the historical narrative of the civil rights movement in Florida. She’s joined by longtime Miami-Dade journalist Nadege Green, now director of community research and storytelling at the Community Justice Project.

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Green, Nadege

Nadege Green is an independent researcher, writer, editor, community archivist, and audio producer based in Miami. Her work centers on the lived experiences of Black people in South Florida. Her practice and approach to storytelling are deeply rooted in history and first-person narratives that explore and connect issues around race, culture, climate justice, health inequities, poverty, and displacement. Her reporting has appeared on NPR, WLRN News, Marketplace, PRI’s The World, and in the Miami Herald.

Yanela Gordon McLeod

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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. In The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality: Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948-1958 (Lexington Books) author Yanela Gordon McLeod places the newspaper into the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida by highlighting its role in Rice v Arnold. This 1949 lawsuit, filed by black recreational golfers in Miami, opposed segregation on the city’s public golf course. The Miami Times was founded in 1923 by Bahamian-born H.E.S. Reeves who ran the newspaper with his son Garth C. Reeves Sr. Its support of the Rice v Arnold legal challenge is but one example of how, financially and editorially, the paper supported efforts to desegregate Miami schools, beaches, residential communities, public transportation systems and sports complexes. Historian Dorothy Jenkins Fields, founder of the Black Archives, History & Research Foundation of South Florida, praised The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality as “ An excellent book for students and others interested in American history and the desegregation of the Miami Springs Golf Course case, this-well documented book serves as a timely reminder of a bygone era.”

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