Midtown, Daytona Beach s historic Black neighborhood, struggles to find a better future
Midtown overcame the height of segregation and racism once before in the 1900s. Now the community hopes to rise again.
Eileen Zaffiro-Kean, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Published
5:06 pm UTC Jan. 3, 2021
DAYTONA BEACH Imagine being forced to live, shop, worship, study and socialize in only one impoverished part of town that you had nothing to do with choosing.
There would be no walls or gates. But the area would be penned in by local laws and mores that dictated which hours of the day you could come out, and under what circumstances.