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Reading List: 

Connolly, N. D. B. (2016) A world more concrete: real estate and the remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Available at Miami Dade Library 363.5999 CONN Fla R

Dunn, Marvin (1997). Black Miami in the Twentieth Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Available at Miami Dade Library: 975.9381 DUNN

Gibson, Thelma Vernell Anderson (2000). Forbearance: Thelma Vernell Anderson Gibson: the life story of a Coconut Grove native by Gibson. Homestead, FL: Helena Enterprises. 

Available at Miami Dade Library: B GIBSON Fla 

Parks, Arva Moore & Bo Bennett (2010). Coconut Grove. Charleston, SC; Arcadia Pub.

Available at Miami Dade Library: 975.9381 PARK Fla R

Parrish, Andy (2024). 30 Mostly True Stories Of Coconut Grove. Independently published.

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. 2021. Place and purpose: art transformation in Coconut Grove.

Available at Miami Dade Library: 708.15 PATR

Plasencia, Alex (2011). “A History of West Coconut Grove from 1925: Slum Clearance, Concrete Monsters, and the Dichotomy of East and West Coconut Grove”. All Theses. 1117.

Quraeshi, Samina (2005). Reimagining west Coconut Grove. Washington, DC: Spacemaker Press. Available at Miami Dade Library: 307.12 REIM Fla

Rose, Chanelle (2015). The struggle for Black freedom in Miami: civil rights and America’s tourist paradise, 1896-1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 

Available at Miami Dade Library: 323.1196 ROSE Fla R

Shell-Weiss, Melanie (2009). Coming to Miami: a social history. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Available at Miami Dade Library: 975.9381 SHEL Fla

Vonk, Carita Swanson (1997). Theodore R. Gibson: priest, prophet and politician: positive, practical, pragmatic. Miami, FL: Little River Press. 

Available at Miami Dade Library: B GIBSON Fla R

Films:

“Graceful Voices” by Lurenda Turner, LT Creative Inc. 

Documentary films produced by the University of Miami School of Law’s Center for Ethnics and Public Service:

2010 Film: “West Coconut Grove: Past, Present and Future” 

2011 Film: “History of Churches in the West Grove: Past, Present and Future” 

2012 Film: “G.W. Carver: A Community School” 

2013 Film: “Someday We’ll All Be Free: The Desegregation of Miami” 

2014 Film: “Old Smokey: A Community History” 

Podcasts:

The Rich and Forgotten History of Black Coconut Grove by the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens 

Coconut Grove Stories: Race, Risk, Resilience by Florida International University 

If you know of additional resources that should be represented here, please contact the site administrator, Dr. Aarti Mehta-Kroll amehtakr@fiu.edu.