Negro in the reconstruction of Florida.

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Negro in the reconstruction of Florida.

Entry/Object ID

Library.1623

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

47 pages ; 28 cm Typewritten copy of an article that appeared in the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College quarterly journal probably typed by WPA workers. 2 hole punch at top of each page. But bound and inserted into a pamphlet binder. Issue of journal: Vol. 5, no. 4, October 1936. Selected topics: Lincoln Brotherhood -- Thomas W. Osborne, Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner -- Loyal League of America -- Constitutional Convention, 1868 -- Colonel William M. Saunders -- Charles H. Pearce -- Jonathan C. Gibbs -- Joe Oats -- William Bradwell -- In 1866, 9/10's of the Negroes in Florida were working on the plantations -- Banks established in Jacksonvillw and Tallahassee by Freedmen's Bureau -- In 1866 state legislature established Negro schools -- Hobbs, State Superintendent of Negro Education -- Freedmen's Aid Society -- Cookman's Institute in Jacksonville -- Churches established by the freedmen and missionary organizations -- African Methodist Episcopal Church organized 1st state conference -- Transition from a slave to a free laborer wasn't difficult (p.29) -- Harrison Reed -- Gibbs as Secretary of State -- Impeachment of Reed -- Ku Klux Klan during the middle period of Reed's administration -- Bitter feelings toward Negroes shown by poor whites -- C.B. Wilder, living in Jax, believed lawlessness caused by carpet-bagger -- Bishop Pearce -- Josiah F. Walls -- Ossian B. Hart -- Gibbs as Supt. of Education -- Marcus L. Stearn -- John R. Scott.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Florida., Blacks -- Florida., Blacks -- History -- 20th century.

Publication Details

Author

Parks, Albert Stanley.

Edition

Typescript

Publisher

Florida. Agricultural and Mechanical University

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Tallahasee

Call No.

Rare Book F 316 .P3 1936