num_pages: 352
description: Focusing on the lives of three black Americans from northeastern Florida--an unarmed motorist killed by a white cop, the granddaughter of the state's first black millionaire, and novelist Zora Neale Hurston--the author plumbs the soul of American race relations and shows how these stories convey important lessons about the American experiment. Reprint.
language: English
title: American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power
titlecomplete: American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 43
places: Florida
publisher: Harper Perennial