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Emancipation Betrayed : the Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920.
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, Eman...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | American Crossroads ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 Betrayed vividly 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (433 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940390 0520940393 1597345903 9781597345903 |