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Florida’s Black Public Officials, 1867-1924

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This ground-breaking study reveals the magnitude and have an effect on of African American leadership in Florida all the way through the post-Civil War era.



Canter Brown’s statewide study of African American leadership in Florida from the closing days of the Civil War until the last two members of a racially integrated town council left administrative center in 1924 reveals that as many as 1,000 African Americans were influential officeholders and powerful Florida politicians. Not merely a local occurrence, this leadership was once inspired by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and was once later supported by a national labor organization, the Knights of Labor. Brown not only makes a speciality of the broader significance of these leaders but also provides a personal glimpse at their challenges and accomplishments, revealing the human side of their leadership and examining who they were, where they came from, what kinds of experiences they had, and what happened to them.

Not merely a local or regionalized study, that is the first statewide study of African American public officials in Florida. Along with providing context and a historical narrative of black leadership in post-Civil War Florida, this work includes an extensive biographical directory of more than 600 officeholders, containing brief biographical sketches and more than 40 portraits. Brown also includes an appendix of officials by political subdivision, providing a very good reference work for several disciplines.


Brown ably demonstrates that blacks were major forces in Florida politics, who labored against more and more difficult odds to care for a voice in public affairs.


 

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