Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 382 p. cm)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520239466
Serie:
American Crossroads v.16
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
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ILLUSTRATIONS; TABLES; Preface; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Prologue; THE PROMISE OF RECONSTRUCTION; THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE DEMOCRACY; WE ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL; TO GAIN THESE FRUITS THAT HAVE BEEN EARNED; TO SEE THAT NONE SUFFER; LOOKING FOR A FREE STATE TO LIVE IN; ECHOES OF EMANCIPATION; WITH BABIES IN THEIR ARMS; ELECTION DAY, 1920; Conclusion; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520250031
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Emancipation Betrayed : The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
