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Article: Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2000 Southern Historical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. By Canter Brown Jr. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c.1998. Pp. xvi, 252. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8173-0916-0; cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-8173-0915-2.)
Historians have paid little attention to the state of Florida and even less to the state's African Americans. While the number of graduate students researching the roles and contributions of Florida's African Americans has increased, published scholarly works dealing with black Floridians are indeed limited. Joe M. Richardson's groundbreaking study, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877 (Tallahassee, Fla., 1965), remains the most ...
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