Emancipation Betrayed The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election Of 1920

Name: Emancipation Betrayed The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election Of 1920
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ISBN: 9780520250031

ISBN-10: 0520250036

ISBN-13: 9780520250031

Edition: 2005

Authors: Paul Ortiz

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In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920,Emancipation Betrayedvividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles during which African Americans struck for higher wages, took up arms to prevent lynching, forged independent political alliances, boycotted segregated streetcars, and created a democratic historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 430
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.09" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface: Election Day in Florida


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Slavery and Civil War



The Promise of Reconstruction



The Struggle to Save Democracy



We Are in the Hands of the Devil: Fighting Racial Terrorism



To Gain these Fruits that Have Been Earned: Emancipation Day



To See that None Suffer: Mutual Aid and Resistance



Looking for a Free State to Live in



Echoes of Emancipation: The Great War in Florida



With Babies in Their Arms: The Voter Registration Movement



Election Day, 1920


Conclusion: Legacies of the Florida Movement


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index