African American Sites in Florida (eBook)

Kevin M McCarthy (Autor)

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2019 | Updated Edition
337 Seiten
Pineapple Press (Verlag)
978-1-56164-951-8 (ISBN)

Infos

African Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to become the heads of corporations and members of Congress in the twenty-first century. They have played an important role in making Florida the successful state it is today. This book takes you on a tour, through the 67 counties, of the sites that commemorate the role of African Americans in Floridas history. If we can learn more about our past, both the good and the not-so-good, we can make better decisions in the future. Behind the hundreds of sites in this book are the courageous African Americans like Brevard Countys Malissa Moore, who hosted many Saturday night dinners to raise money to build a church, and Miami-Dades Gedar Walker, who built the first-rate Lyric Theater for black performers. And of course also featured are the more famous black Floridians like Zora Neale Hurston, Jackie Robinson, Mary McCleod Bethune, and Ray Charles.

Autor

Kevin McCarthy taught for two years in Turkey as a Peace Corps Volunteer, one ear in Lebanon and two years in Saudi Arabia as a Fulbright Professor, and 37 years at the University of FLorida, where he taught courses in linguistics and writing. He has had 36 books published, including these by Pineapple Press: African American Sites in Florida, Twenty Florida Pirates, Thirty Florida Shipwrecks, Native Americans in Florida, and Apalachicola Bay. He also published African Americans at the University of Florida (UF Sesquicentennial Committee, 2003).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.7.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 175 Illustrations including: - 175 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • Ais Indians • Alachua • Amelia Island • American Revolution • Angola • Apalachee Indians • Apalachicola • Arcadia • Arthur Ashe • Baseball • battle of olustee • Bay County • black caesar • Black Codes • Black firefighters • black seminoles • Bookerstown • Caesar's Creek • Caesar's Rock • Calusa Indians • Captiva Island • Civil War • Count Basie • Daytona Beach • Deerfield Beach • DeFuniak Springs • dunnellon • Fernandina Beach • Florida • Frederick Douglass • Great Depression • Harry Belafonte • henry aaron • Homestead • Immokalee • James Baldwin • Jimmy Carter • Katherine Drexel • Key Biscayne • Key Largo • Key vaca • Ku Klux Klan • Lake Okeechobee • lake wales • lake worth • largo • Malcolm X • Marcus Garvey • Medgar Evars • Merritt Island • Miami Dade County • mount dora • NAACP • Negro Island • Nelson Mandela • Ocala • Paul Lawrence Dunbar • Plantations • Richard Nixon • Robert E. Lee • Seminole Wars • Slavery • Suwannee River • Turpentine Industry • Vagrancy Laws • Viet Nam War • W.E.B. DuBois • Wesley Snipes • World War I • World War II • Zolfo Springs
• ISBN-10: 1-56164-951-1 / 1561649511
• ISBN-13: 978-1-56164-951-8 / 9781561649518