Title: African Americans in Florida /
Authors: Jones, Maxine Deloris.; McCarthy, Kevin
Publisher: Pineapple Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: African Americans Florida History Juvenile literature.; African Americans Florida History Pictorial works Juvenile literature.; Florida History Juvenile literature.; Florida History Pictorial works Juvenile literature.
Abstract: Briefly describes the lives and contributions of more than fifty notable African-Americans in Florida, from 1528 to the present, in such fields as education, politics, journalism, sports, music, and religion.
Contents: Estevanico the Black, 1528 -- Slave ships, 1700 -- Fort Mose, 1738 -- The Negro Fort, 1816 -- Zephaniah Kingsleyʼs Plantation, 1820 -- African Americans in south Florida -- Black Seminoles, 1838 -- The Abolitionists, 1844 -- Florida the slave state, 1845 -- The Civil War, 1861-1865 -- The Battle of Olustee, 1864 -- Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Robert Meacham, 1835-1902 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1867 -- Josiah Walls, 1842-1905 -- Jonathan C. Gibbs, 1827-1874 -- Edward Waters College, 1872 -- T. Thomas Fortune, 1856-1928 -- African American Newspapers, 1873 -- Turpentine camps, 1877 -- Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) 1887 -- Sports in Florida, 1890 -- Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-1955 -- Abrams L. Lewis and the Afro-American Life Insurance Company -- Augusta Savage, sculptor, 1900-1962 -- Clara Frye, nurse, 1872-1937 -- Eartha Mary Magdalene White, ʺAngel of Mercy, ʺ 1876-1974 -- James Weldon Johnson, author, composer, diplomat, civil rights leader, 1871-1938 -- Zora Neale Hurston, author, anthropologist, folklorist, 1891-1960 -- The Ocoee Riot, 1920 -- the Rosewood Massacre, January, 1923 -- J.R.E. Lee, President of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical College, 1864-1944 -- Blanche Armwood, educator, administrator, race leader, 1890-1939.