To render invisible : Jim Crow and public life in new South Jacksonville

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

To render invisible : Jim Crow and public life in new South Jacksonville

Entry/Object ID

Library.1059

Description

xv, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm To render invisible : Jim Crow and public life in new South Jacksonville by Robert Cassanello. Includes bibliographical references and index. An examination into the nature of social spaces that takes Jacksonville during Reconstruction as a case study investigating the struggles and limitations of its black and white working classes. Contents: Introduction: the color-line and the public sphere -- Re-ordered spaces -- Democratized space -- The mob-public -- The black counterpublic emerges -- Representations of private spaces -- Representations of public spaces -- Labor's counterpublic -- Women's counterpublic -- Conclusion: the black counterpublic comes of age -- Epilogue: making the invisible visible. Selected Jacksonville photos: Portrait group of African American Carpenters Union,1899 -- Black owned North Jacksonville Line, 1902 -- Map of Jacksonville showing Brooklyn, Oakland, Hanson Town, Downtown in 1884 -- Atlanta and Gulf Central Railroad depot,1864 -- Margaret Murray Washington visiting Black public school, 1913 -- Margaret Murray Washington and Eartha White with women of the City Federation of Colored Women's Club of Jacksonville. Selected tables: Church denominations in Duval County, 1860-1870 -- School attendance in Duval County, 1870 -- Total population of Duval County, 1860-1870 -- Total population of Jacksonville, 1870-1890 -- Number of persons born in the North in Duval County, 1860-1920 -- Total city population, 1900, 1910, 1920 Total, White, Black -- Men executed for murdering a law enforcement officer in city, 1895-1919. Selected Jacksonville people, societies, landmarks, events mentioned: Jacksonville's Woman Club and involvement with suffrage movement -- James J. Head, president of Heard National Bank -- Florida Equal Franchise League -- Katherine L. Eagan -- Elizabeth B. Anderson -- Van C. Swearingen -- Elmo Acosta -- Francis Anderson -- Jacksonville Equal Suffrage League -- May Mann Jennings -- Suffrage Prison Special Party at Morocco Temple 1919 -- Colored Women's Club -- Eartha White -- Charles Edwin Garner -- Lincoln Memorial Association -- Margaret D. McCleary -- NAACP -- George Du Bose -- Ed Jones -- Cook -- Morrine -- Claude Howell -- Officer John Turknett -- Helen Hunt -- Ku Klux Klan -- James Weldon Johnson -- Freedmen's Bureau.

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

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., African Americans -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Racism -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Race relations., African Americans., African Americans -- Civil rights., Race relations., Racism., Florida -- Jacksonville., Equal Franchise League (Fla.)., Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Florida - History., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History.

Publication Details

Author

Cassanello, Robert

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Gainesville, FL

Call No.

F 319 .J1 C377 2013

ISBN

9780813062198

LCCN

2012046692