Editing Fort Lauderdale, Florida (section)

===20th century===
In 1911, the city was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]]. In 1915, it was designated the county seat of newly formed [[Broward County, Florida|Broward County]].<ref name=BrowardCreation>{{Cite news| url=http://fulltext.fcla.edu//DLData/SN/SN01480340/0011_003/file5.pdf |title=The Creation of Broward County: Victory in Tallahassee| periodical=Broward Legacy (Broward County Historical Commission) |year=1988 |volume=11 |pages=6–8 |access-date=2007-07-02 |issue=3 and 4}}</ref>

Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the [[Florida land boom of the 1920s|Florida land boom]].<ref name=Foundations>
{{Cite news |url=http://fulltext.fcla.edu//DLData/SN/SN01480340/0008_001/file4.pdf |title=Foundations of Broward County Waterways|last=Kirk |first=Cooper |periodical=Broward Legacy (Broward County Historical Commission). |year=1985 |volume=8|pages=2–18 |access-date=2007-07-14 |issue=1 and 2 }}</ref> The [[1926 Miami hurricane|Great Miami Hurricane of 1926]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/newpage/broward_events.html |title=Top 10 Weather Events-Broward County |publisher=NOAA |access-date=2007-07-01|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080418062208/http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/newpage/broward_events.html |archive-date = April 18, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knifepoint. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some 20 bullets.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Negro is Lynched by Mob in Florida|date = 20 July 1935|journal = New York Times}}</ref> The murder was subsequently used by the press in [[Nazi Germany]] to discredit U.S. critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Nazi Press Scorns U.S. on Lynch Horrors|date = 10 August 1935|journal = The Pittsburgh Courier}}</ref>

When [[World War II]] began, Fort Lauderdale became a major U.S. base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at [[Port Everglades]] was also established.<ref name="Subs-Soldiers">{{Cite news |url=http://fulltext.fcla.edu//DLData/SN/SN01480340/0014_001/file3.pdf |title=Submarines and Soldiers: Fort Lauderdale in World War II |year=1991 |last=George |first=Paul S. |periodical=Broward Legacy (Broward County Historical Commission) |volume=14 |pages=2–14 |access-date=2007-07-05 |issue=1 and 2 }}</ref>

Until July 1961, only whites were allowed on Ft. Lauderdale beaches. There were no beaches for African-Americans in Broward County until 1954, when "the Colored Beach," today [[Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park]], was opened in [[Dania Beach]]; however, no road was built to it until 1965. On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of wade-ins as protests at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach."<ref name=Bigdig30>{{cite news
|title=The Long Hard Fight for Equal Rights: A History of Broward County's Colored Beach and the Fort Lauderdale Beach 'Wade-ins' of the Summer of 1961|first=William G.|last=Crawford, Jr.|magazine=Tequesta|volume=67|year=2007|url=http://www.floridasbigdig.com/uploads/ColoredBeachWadeInTequesta0001.pdf|pages=19–49}}</ref>{{rp|30}}<ref>Deborah Work, ''My Soul Is a Witness: A History of Black Fort Lauderdale'', pp. 138-48</ref> On July 11, 1962, a verdict by [[Ted Cabot]] went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches, and Broward County beaches were desegregated in 1962.

Fort Lauderdale is a major center for [[yacht|yachting]],<ref name=2006stats>{{cite press release|url=http://www.sunny.org/media/index.cfm?action=showArticle&articleID=447 |title=Greater Fort Lauderdale 2006 Statistics |publisher=Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau |date=March 2007 |access-date=2007-07-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929000625/http://www.sunny.org/media/index.cfm?action=showArticle&articleID=447 |archive-date=2007-09-29 }}</ref> one of the nation's largest tourist destinations,<ref name=2006stats/> and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.<ref name=metropop>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/metro-micro/p25-1136.html |title=Population Change in Central and Outlying Counties of Metropolitan Statistical Areas: 2000 to 2007 |date=June 2009 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=April 24, 2021}}</ref>