Source: https://oral.history.ufl.edu/collections/books/
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 17:17:23+00:00

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Oral histories from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Collections have been used in a variety of different publications on historical topics. The Books and Research Publications section highlights a selection of these works.
In June 2014, SPOHP returned to the Delta to conduct additional oral histories and participate in reunion celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, (June 23-29, 2014) in partnership with the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization. The trip also marked conclusion of a processing mini-grant from George A. Smathers Libraries that enabled the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program to process over 100 interviews, compiled into an edited volume “I Will Never Forget: Memories from Mississippi Freedom Summer,” by MFP coordinator Sarah Blanc and Dr. Paul Ortiz.
The book was shared with civil rights veterans at the June 2014 reunion as well as local community members, schools, libraries, museums, and hotels, in publication made possible through sponsorship from the UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, Center for Undergraduate Research, Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, Department of History, Milbauer Program in Southern History, African American Studies Program, Phi Alpha Theta chapter, and George A. Smathers Libraries.
In October 2014, civil rights attorney John Due celebrated his eightieth birthday. “Civil Rights Attorney John Due: An Oral History Series” was compiled by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program to commemorate the life and work of Attorney John Dorsey Due and his family, in celebration of his eightieth birthday.
Attorney John Dorsey Due, Jr., has been a civil rights advocate for over fifty years, beginning as a member of the Terre Haute, Indiana Youth Council of the NAACP at the age of 14. As a civil rights lawyer and as an activist, he helped litigate, or was otherwise involved in, Due v. Tallahassee Theaters (Leon County, 1963); Florida v. Hayling (St. Johns County, 1963); Mississippi v. Due (Liberty County, 1964); Schwerner v. City of Meridian Mississippi (1964); Andrew Young v. Farris Bryant (1964); Waller v. State of Florida, (Pinellas County, 1966); and is the last litigator of the 1969 Miami-Dade County school desegregation case Pate v. Dade County Public Schools. This case began as a NAACP LDF sponsored case in 1958, Gibson et al v Dade County Public Schools.
For his wide-ranging activities and public service, Due has received the Chancey Eskridge Distinguished Barrister Award from the 2004 Annual Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the 2004 Martin Luther King “Keepers Of The Dream Award” from the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County; the “Foot Soldiers Award” from the 2003 national convention of the NAACP; and a special “Lifetime of Fighting for Social Justice Award—a Living Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement” from the 2003 national convention of Jobs with Justice.
The book was shared at Mr. Due’s eightieth birthday celebration the weekend of October 25, 2014, in Tallahassee. Sarah Blanc edited and compiled the volume of interviews conducted by Michael Brandon, Jessica Charlton, Justin Dunnavant, Justin Hosbey, Steven Houston, and Dr. Paul Ortiz. Transcripts were completed by Sarah Blanc, Amelia D’Costa, Diana Dombrowski, Justin Dunnavant, Derick Gomez, Brittany Hibbert, Anna Jiminez, Genesis Lara, Annemarie Nichols, and Jessica Taylor. Recording and audio mastery of interviews by Deborah Hendrix, with cover photo by Jes Baldeweg-Rau.
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.
Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins and Robert Korstad, with Paul Ortiz et al.
“Remembering Jim Crow,” the groundbreaking sequel to “Remembering Slavery,” is an extraordinary opportunity to read and hear the voices of black southerners who were firsthand witnesses to one of the most heartbreaking and troubling chapters in America’s history. Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book-and-CD set presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever recorded of African American life in the racially segregated South.
In vivid, compelling stories, men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression—in the workplace, on street corners, and above all in the public facilities and institutions that systematically demeaned, disenfranchised, and disempowered black people, condemning them to second-class citizenship. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black southerners fought back against the system, raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of survival enriched by vivid memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies.
Remembering Jim Crow is accompanied by two one-hour compact discs of the companion radio documentary produced by American RadioWorks. A transcript of the audio programs is included in the book’s appendix, and the book is illustrated with fifty rare segregation-era photographs collected from African American families who participated in the oral history project. Boxed set: hardcover book with 2 one-hour compact discs; 50 black-and-white photographs.

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