Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 192

by Paul Ortiz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520250036
• ISBN13: 9780520250031
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.8"