What minister in Miami set up the Coconut Grove Committee for Slum Clearance in the 1960s?

 

(Coconut Grove Citizens Committee for Slum Clearance. Credit: Virrick Papers, HistoryMiami, 1995-628-24)

After the Civil War and Reconstruction states in the south, including Florida, passed laws legalizing segregation. One of the statutes put into place determined where African Americans could and could not live. These laws in effect set up slums in major cities around the nation. During the Civil Rights movement people protested these laws and demanded equal treatment for all races.

A. Rev. Theodore Gibson