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Primary Sources for "Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch"
Album Description
Last week I read Heidi Tyline King's Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch and was fascinated to learn this story. After going down my own rabbit hole, I decided to create an album for anyone looking for primary sources to pair with this picture book biography. In the days of Jim Crow, the beaches in Jacksonville, Florida were segregated, so MaVynee's grandfather purchased land and created his own beach, American Beach. After a career as an opera singer, MaVynee returned to American Beach where she fought to save the Beach. 
Pre K - 2 3 - 5 Conservation American Beach MaVynee Betsch
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch
National Park Service: MaVynee "Beach Lady" Betsch
Audio Interview with MaVynee Betsch
American Beach Museum
Florida Humanities "For the Love of American Beach"
National Book Festival 2021: Saving American Beach
Smithsonian Magazine: "Beach Lady"
The Miami times. [volume], August 13, 1949, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
Reference note
Newspaper: The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current
Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83004231/1949-08-13/ed-1/seq-6
Image provided by: University of Florida
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83004231/1949-08-13/ed-1/seq-6.pdf
The Miami times. [volume], August 13, 1949, Page PAGE FIVE, Image 5
Reference note
Newspaper: The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-currentNewspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83004231/1949-08-13/ed-1/seq-5
Image provided by: University of Florida
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83004231/1949-08-13/ed-1/seq-5.pdf