African American Sites in Florida

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African Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to turn out to be the heads of corporations and members of Congress in the twenty-first century. They’ve played the most important role in making Florida the successful state it’s these days. This book takes you on a tour, through the 67 counties, of the sites that commemorate the role of African Americans in Florida’s history. If we will learn more about our past, both the good and the not-so-good, we will make better decisions at some point. In the back of the hundreds of sites on this book are the courageous African Americans like Brevard County’s Malissa Moore, who hosted many Saturday night dinners to raise money to build a church, and Miami-Dade’s Gedar Walker, who built the first-rate Lyric Theater for black performers. And naturally also featured are the more famous black Floridians like Zora Neale Hurston, Jackie Robinson, Mary McCleod Bethune, and Ray Charles.

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