Attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic pressure to improve their situation and force politicians to make moderate adjustments in the Jim Crow system.
Preface Introduction When Days Were Dark: Jacksonville's African-American Community From the Civil War through 1945 The First African-American Strides Towards Political Power The African-American Community: The Dynamics of Machine Politics in the Modern Age Haydon Burns and the African-American Community: The Dynamics of Machine Politics in the Modern Age Reading, Writing, and Racism: The Fight to Desegregate the Duval County School System The 1960 and 1964 Jacksonville Riots: The Difficult Years Our Time Has Come: The Impact of African-America Voting on the 1967 Local Elections Jacksonville Duval and County Consolidation: A Trick or Treat Race Still Matters: A Look at the Bold New City of the South Bibliography Index
ABEL A. BARTLEY is professor of African American and Urban History at the University of Akron./e He is a specialist on southern African American political activism, and he has authored several articles on urban and African American historical topics.
.,."fills a void in the history of race relations in one of
Florida's largest cities before and during the civil rights
movement. This volume should be read by those interested in the
Civil Rights movement, in Southern and Florida History, and in
African American History."-Florida Historical Quarterly
.,."fills in some important gaps in the field...elucidates further
the variety of ways in which the modern struggle for black equality
played out across the urban South....provides an important example
of New South racial conservatism."-The Journal of American
History
?...fills a void in the history of race relations in one of
Florida's largest cities before and during the civil rights
movement. This volume should be read by those interested in the
Civil Rights movement, in Southern and Florida History, and in
African American History.?-Florida Historical Quarterly
?...fills in some important gaps in the field...elucidates further
the variety of ways in which the modern struggle for black equality
played out across the urban South....provides an important example
of New South racial conservatism.?-The Journal of American
History
..."fills in some important gaps in the field...elucidates further
the variety of ways in which the modern struggle for black equality
played out across the urban South....provides an important example
of New South racial conservatism."-The Journal of American
History
..."fills a void in the history of race relations in one of
Florida's largest cities before and during the civil rights
movement. This volume should be read by those interested in the
Civil Rights movement, in Southern and Florida History, and in
African American History."-Florida Historical Quarterly
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