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Keeping the faith : race, politics, and social development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970Entry/Object ID
Library.878Description
xvii, 177 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Keeping the faith : race, politics, and social development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970 by Abel A. Bartley.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- When Days Were Dark: Jacksonville's African-American Community From the Civil War through 1945 -- The First African-American Strides Towards Political Power -- The African-American Community during the 1950s -- Haydon Burns and the African-American Community : The Dynamics of Machine Politics in the Modern Age -- Reading, Writing, and Racism: The Fight to Desegregate the Duval County School System -- The 1960 and 1964 Jacksonville Riots: The Difficult Years -- Our Time Has Come: The Impact of African-America Voting on the 1967 Local Elections -- Jacksonville Duval and County Consolidation: A Trick or Treat -- Race Still Matters: A Look at the Bold New City of the South -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city; this study attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic pressure to improve their situation and force politicians to make moderate adjustments in the Jim Crow system. Bartley tells the compelling story of how African Americans first gained, then lost, then regained political representation in Jacksonville. Between the end of the Civil War and the consolidation of city and county government in 1967, the political struggle was buffeted by the ongoing effort to build an economically viable African American economy in the virulently racist South. It was the institutional complexity of the African American community that ultimately made the protest efforts viable. Black leaders relied on the institutions created during Reconstruction to buttress their social agitation. Black churches, schools, fraternal organizations, and businesses underpinned the civil rights activities of community leaders by supplying the people and the evidence of abuse that inflamed the passions of ordinary people.
Tables: African-Americans elected to State offices from Duval County between 1865 and 1900 -- Population of Jacksonville and Duval County, 1860-1965 -- African-Americans elected to local offices in Jacksonville b etween 1865 and 1907 -- African-American City Council members from 1967 to 1995 -- Infant mortality rate recorded by color and city, 1940 -- Percentage of resident births attended by physicians, midwives, and others, by color and county, 1940 -- Leading causes of death and death rate in Duval County by race, 1950 -- Median income and educational attainment for selected years for Jacksonville by race -- Estimated population by color, selected Florida counties (Duval included), 1940 -- Births recorded by color and county, 1940 -- Same except by city -- Deaths recorded by color and city, 1940 -- Resident deaths from each cause by color, 1940 -- Same but for 1950 -- Infant mortality rate by color and city, 1950 -- Percentage of resident births attended by physicians, midwives, and others, by color and county, 1950 -- Mid-year population estimates by race and color, 1960 -- Same but for 1967.
Selected photos include: Stanton Institute, 1870 -- Stanton faculty & staff circa 1880 -- Eartha White circa 1896 -- Divinity High School circa 1889 -- Rutledge Pearson & some members of the Jax Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance circa 1960 -- Elcee Lucas, 1951 -- Mary Singleton accepting award from Charles Bennett -- Sallye Mathis -- Rutledge Pearson meeting with Carl Evers in early 1960's.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-174) and index.Collection
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History -- 20th century., African Americans -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Politics and government., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Race relations., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.Publication Details
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Bartley, Abel A. 1965-Publisher
Greenwood Press,Place Published
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Westport, ConnCall No.
F 319 .J1 B37 2000ISBN
0313310351