Research Terms
Ethnic and Racial Group Studies African-American Studies Ethnic Minorities Hispanic Studies Humanities History African-American History Citizenship Immigration Policy
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.
Macmillan: Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History, Board of Advisors; 2010 - present
United Faculty of Florida, Member; 2008 - present
An introduction to major themes in Hispanic History in the United States from the Mexican War of Independence to Present.
Subject Areas:
Keywords:
Audience:
Adults
Duration:
1 hour or less
Fee:
Expenses Only
Visual and audio presentation of the connections between African American and Latino historical experiences from the Mexican American War to present.
Subject Areas:
Keywords:
Audience:
Adults
Duration:
1 hour or less
Fee:
Expenses Only
An introduction to the major themes of African American history and the role that Black Americans have played in pivotal events from the American Revolution to present.
Subject Areas:
Keywords:
Audience:
Adults
Duration:
2-3 hours
Fee:
Expenses Only
An introduction to major themes in Hispanic History in the United States from the Mexican War of Independence to Present.
Subject Areas:
Keywords:
Audience:
Adults
Duration:
1 hour or less
Fee:
Expenses Only
SAMUEL PROCTOR ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM PO BOX 117320 PO BOX 117320 GAINESVILLE, FL 32611-7320