Title Emancipation betrayed : the hidden history of Black organizing and white violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the bloody election of 1920 / Paul Ortiz

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 382 pages, [20] pages of plates) Series American crossroads ; 16 American crossroads ; 16. 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 Summary 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 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. African Americans called on these institutions to build a statewide movement to regain the right to vote after World War I. African American women played a decisive role in the campaign as they mobilized in the months leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The 1920 contest culminated in the bloodiest Election Day in modern American history, when white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan violently, and with state sanction, prevented African Americans from voting. Ortiz's eloquent interpretation of the many ways that black Floridians fought to expand the meaning of freedom beyond formal equality and his broader consideration of how people resist oppression and create new social movements illuminate a strategic era of United States history and reveal how the legacy of legal segregation continues to play itself out to this day Notes "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-367) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject African Americans -- Florida -- Politics and government -- 19th century African Americans -- Florida -- Politics and government -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- History African Americans -- Florida -- Social conditions Racism -- Florida -- History -- 19th century Racism -- Florida -- History -- 20th century Violence -- Florida -- History -- 19th century Violence -- Florida -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- General. African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Politics and government African Americans -- Social conditions Politics and government Race relations Racism Violence Bürgerrechtsbewegung Schwarze Soziale Situation Ethnische Beziehungen Rassismus Bürgerrecht Politieke participatie. Rassendiscriminatie. Civil Rights Movement. Politiek geweld. SUBJECT Florida -- Race relations Florida -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049244 Subject Florida Florida Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021696318 ISBN 9780520940390 0520940393 9780520239463 9780520250031 0520250036 0520239466

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