The struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow is documented in this examination of African-American politics and culture during the period between the end of slavery and the 1920 election.
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Fortified by the theories of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and Jürgen Habermas, To Render Invisible is the first book to focus on the tumultuous emergence of African American public life in Jacksonville between Reconstruction and the 1920s ...
This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century.
Todd, Gwendolyn Powell (1996) Innovation and Growth in an African American Owned Business. New York: Taylor 8: Francis. Walker, Iuliet E. K. (1983) Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier. Lexington: University Press of ...
Examines the life of a former slave who became a radical abolitionist and Union spy, recruiting black soldiers for the North, fighting racism within the Union Army and much more.
This is Marvin Dunn's impetus in writing The Beast in Florida, an unflinching and haunting look at the dark past of the Sunshine State.
As an adult, Felder's research into the life and death of A.S.J. Allen became a journey of self-discovery. In this book the author shares his process, providing guidance to others seeking to discover the stories of their ancestors.
In A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...
This book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic. A Fragile Freedom investigates how African...
Born a King and betrayed by the trust of a single greedy member of his tribe.