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Article: Professionals Strive to Preserve African-American Beach in North Florida.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2002
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Byline: Kelly Brewington
Aug. 2--For 15 years, Eugene Emory has been coming to Florida's most famous African-American beach and has watched the condos, hotels and million-dollar mansions come ever closer.
The researcher from Atlanta decided to get a piece of the action by renovating a ramshackle oceanfront shack into his own three-story "bed and beach."
He's part of a new guard of black professionals striving to preserve American Beach against pressures to become just another stretch of high-priced oceanfront real estate.
"We don't need to be getting angry at the white folks who come in here and buy property; that's misdirected," Emory ...