![]() The resulting downward mobility of South Florida’s black suburbs and the attendant frustrations among black Miamians, by the late 1960s, sparked a most dramatic break in Miami’s fragile racial peace – the Liberty City riot of 1968. And commitments among many entrepreneurs to continue profiting from racial segregation ensured that black suburbs in South Florida would suffer much of the same unequal treatment and infrastructural development that had plagued Jim Crow’s tenements over the previous century. Commitments on the part of white city officials and developers to maintain a degree of racial segregation in housing – post-Jim Crow – made South Florida’s new color line harder to see, and thus more impervious to legal challenge. ![]() ![]() African American and black Caribbean suburbanization also served, however, as uniquely important engines for a political culture that continued to privilege property ownership as the most durable marker of respectability and equal citizenship. Black support for suburbanization must be understood as part of more general residential trends in metropolitan development, this chapter shows. ![]() This chapter examines how black people pursued suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s as part of new efforts at racial integration and long-time efforts to realize and showcase class-distinctions within segregated black communities. ![]()
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