Additional Resources
- Florida wade-ins to end racial segregation of public beach and pools (Civil Rights Movement) 1945-1964, Global Nonviolent Action Database
- Our History, Historic Virginia Key Beach Park
- #APeoplesJourney: From Sit-Ins To Wade-Ins, National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Many thanks to Virginia Key Beach Park Trust for giving us permission to use their collections for the bulk of this primary source set.
Also thanks to the following insititutions for permission to use their collections:
- Miami-Dade Public Library Digital Collections
- The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives
- The Miami Times Archive (at the University of Florida Digital Collections)
- Florida Memory
This primary source set was created by Molly Castro, Digital Humanities Librarian, and Christine Monge, Digital Collections Center Intern.
The Timeline was created by Christine Monge. The Classroom Guide was developed with guidance from K-12 educators.