Civil Rights • Books & Film
The Civil Rights Movement was fought in schools, public facilities and even our famed beaches. It is a topic that Florida scholars continue to study and analyze. Our bookshelf includes books on famed civil rights martyr Harry T. Moore, the Freedom Riders, and civil rights activists in Miami.
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida’slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Both an American slave and a slaveowner—and possibly an African princess—Anna was a teenager when sh ...read more
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Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights Martyr
Before Martin Luther King, Jr., began to preach from his pulpit in Montgomery, before the landmark B ...read more
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Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
Black Miami in the Twentieth Century is the first book devoted to the history of African Americans i ...read more
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Florida City
When a young Japanese woman is found murdered outside a small Florida town in December of 1941, hard ...read more
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Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore
On Christmas night 1951, Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette retired to bed in their white frame h ...read more
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Harvest of Shame
Introduced by Dan Rather and narrated by Edward R. Murrow, this landmark 1960 “CBS Reports” document ...read more
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Jacksonville After the Fire: 1901–1919, a New South City
This first modern study of the history of Jacksonville in the Progressive Era recounts a tale of two ...read more
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Jacksonville: the Consolidation City, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars
In the 1950s and ’60s Jacksonville faced daunting problems. Critics described city government as bos ...read more
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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
For almost a century and a half, Florida’s land and water endured developers who had little use for ...read more
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More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa
This engaging ethnography follows Cuban exiles—from Jose Marti’s revolution, to the Jim Crow South i ...read more
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Multicultural Reflections on "Race and Change"
Few places in the United States provide the gold mine of diversity found in South Florida. What bett ...read more
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Slavery in Florida
This important illustrated social history of slavery tells what life was like for bondservants in Fl ...read more
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South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945–1960
Citing unusual and revealing primary materials from the careers of two remarkable Jewish women, Raym ...read more
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The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885–1985
Focusing on the Italian experience in this multi-ethnic city, two historians explore interactions am ...read more
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