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Emancipation betrayedEntry/Object ID
Library.1563Description
xxviii, 382 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Emancipation betrayed by Paul Ortiz.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-367) and index.
Contents: 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.
"In this examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a 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 Betrayed demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-1920 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 to previous claims that African Americans made few strides toward building an effective civil rights movement during this period, Ortiz documents how black Floridians formed mutual aid organizations - secret societies, women's clubs, labor unions, and churches - to bolster dignity and survival in the harsh climate of Florida, which had the highest lynching rate of any state in the union."--Jacket.
Jax information: unemployment protests 1888 -- President Theodore Roosevelt's visit in 1905 -- Rev. J.Milton Waldron speech on demise of GOP in Jax area -- Benjamin Reed , Frank Burrows dispute in 1892 -- slavery compensation -- Day of Jubilee in Jax -- 1901 Segregation ordinance and streetcars -- Jax as gateway city for departure during Great Migration and Four Mile Hill -- Interracial conference to address labor exodus attended by Joseph E. Lee, N. W. Collier and G. W. Wetmore -- Organizing of Chapter of NAACP by George H. Mays -- Joseph E. Lee organizes CRC -- Eartha White and State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs -- Harding-Coolidge Club -- Ku Klux Klan march in Jax -- Knights of Pythias.
Jax photos: Ad for runaway slaves published in Jax Courier -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Emancipation Celebration in St. Augustine -- Eartha White and Clara White -- Group of Jax carpenters -- Bethel Baptist Institutional Church -- 1905 Jax streetcat boycott broadside -- Governor N. B. Broward -- Jax longshoremen taking lunch break -- Joseph E. Lee -- James Weldon Johnson -- Colored Knights of Pythias State Lodge Building.Collection
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- History., African Americans -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Racism -- Florida -- History -- 20th century., Violence -- Florida -- History -- 19th century., Violence -- Florida -- History -- 20th century., Florida -- Race relations., Lee, Joseph E., White, Eartha M. M. -- 1876-1974., Mays, George H., Racism -- Florida -- History -- 19th century., Johnson, James Weldon -- 1871-1938.Publication Details
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Ortiz, Paul 1964-Publisher
University of California PressPlace Published
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BerkeleyCall No.
E185.93.F5 O78 2005ISBN
9780520250031