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African Americans in Florida / Maxine D. Jones and Kevin M. McCarthy.
Author
Jones, Maxine Deloris
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Sarasota, Fla. : Pineapple Press, ©1993.
Description
189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
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E185.93.F5 M37 1993
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African Americans
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Florida
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History
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Juvenile literature
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African Americans
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Florida
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History
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Pictorial works
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Juvenile literature
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Florida
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History
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Juvenile literature
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Florida
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History
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McCarthy, Kevin (Kevin M.)
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Illustrated works
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illustrated books
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Summary note
Briefly describes the lives and contributions of more than fifty notable African-Americans in Florida, from 1528 to the present, in such fields as education, politics, journalism, sports, music, and religion.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Estevanico the Black, 1528
Slave ships, 1700
Fort Mose, 1738
The Negro Fort, 1816
Zephaniah Kingsleyʼs Plantation, 1820
African Americans in south Florida
Black Seminoles, 1838
The Abolitionists, 1844
Florida the slave state, 1845
The Civil War, 1861-1865
The Battle of Olustee, 1864
Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Robert Meacham, 1835-1902
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1867
Josiah Walls, 1842-1905
Jonathan C. Gibbs, 1827-1874
Edward Waters College, 1872
T. Thomas Fortune, 1856-1928
African American Newspapers, 1873
Turpentine camps, 1877
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) 1887
Sports in Florida, 1890
Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-1955
Abrams L. Lewis and the Afro-American Life Insurance Company
Augusta Savage, sculptor, 1900-1962
Clara Frye, nurse, 1872-1937
Eartha Mary Magdalene White, ʺAngel of Mercy, ʺ 1876-1974
James Weldon Johnson, author, composer, diplomat, civil rights leader, 1871-1938
Zora Neale Hurston, author, anthropologist, folklorist, 1891-1960
The Ocoee Riot, 1920
the Rosewood Massacre, January, 1923
J.R.E. Lee, President of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical College, 1864-1944
Blanche Armwood, educator, administrator, race leader, 1890-1939.
Ray Charles, singer, entertainer, 1930-
Teachersʼ salary equalization cases
Strawberry schools, Alonzo S. ʺJakeʺ Gaither, football coach 1903-
Robert Lee ʺBobʺ Hayes, worldʼs fastest human, 1942-
S.D. McGill, civil right attorney, 1878-1951
Virgil D. Hawkins, 1906-1988
Harry T. Moore, educator and civil rights leader, 1905-1951
Reverend C.K. Steele, civil rights leader, 1914-1980
The Tallahassee Bus Boycott, 1956
St. Augustine, Florida and the Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1964
Two African American war heroes, 1968-1969
Daniel ʺChappieʺ James, Jr., Americaʼs first African American Four-Star General, 1920-1978
Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry, educator, attorney, politician, 1923-1979
Mary Littlejohn Singleton, city councilwoman state, legislator, 1920-1980
Joseph W. Hatchett, Floridaʼs first African American Supreme Court Justice, 1932-
Leander Shaw, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Carrie Pittman Meek, United States Congresswoman, 1926-
Jesse J. McCrary, Jr., Floridaʼs first African American cabinet member since reconstruction
Harry Kthaw Singletary, Jr., Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, 1946-
Calendar
Florida Black Heritage Trail
Glossary.
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ISBN
1561640301
9781561640300
156164031X ((pbk.))
9781561640317 ((pbk.))
LCCN
93027737
OCLC
28423312
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