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Florida Collection February 2017
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Searching for Ancestor Photographs Saturday, February 4, 11:00 am-12:30 pm Event Location: John F. Germany - AuditoriumWondering if photographs of your ancestors exist? The Florida Genealogical Society, in partnership with the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library, presents a program that will help answer this question. Come and discover various resources that may assist in your search.
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Burgert Brothers Walking Tour of Central Avenue
Saturday, February 11,
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Event Location: Starts at Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library
Fred Hearns is an author and owner of Tampa Bay History Tours. Join us for this two-hour tour as we explore the rich history of the Central Avenue area. We’ll begin with Booker T. Washington Elementary School, and make our way over on Scott Street. We’ll visit existing buildings such as the St. Peter Claver School, and also view sites of establishments that are no longer standing. The walk will terminate at Perry Harvey Sr. Park.
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Old South, New South, or down South? : Florida and the modern civil rights movement
by Irvin D. S. Winsboro
How does a state, tarnished with a racist, violent history, emerge from the modern civil rights movement with a reputation for tolerance and progression? Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement exposes the image, illusion, and reality behind Florida’s hidden story of racial discrimination and violence. By exploring multiple perspectives on racially motivated events, such as black agency, political stonewalling, and racist assaults, this collection of nine essays reconceptualizes the civil rights legacy of the Sunshine State. Its dissection of local, isolated acts of rebellion reveals a strategic, political concealment of the once dominant, often overlooked, old south attitude towards race in Florida.
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A History of Florida : Through Black Eyes
by Marvin Dunn
I know Florida. I was born in Florida during the reign of Jim Crow and have lived to see black astronauts blasted into the heavens from Cape Canaveral. For three quarters of a century I have lived mostly in Florida. I have seen her flowers and her warts. This book is about both. People of African descent have been in Florida from the arrival of Ponce de Leon in 1513, yet our presence in the state is virtually hidden. A casual glance at most Florida history books depict African Americans primarily as laborers who are shown as backdrops to white history. The history of blacks in Florida has been deliberately distorted, omitted and marginalized. We have been denied our heroes and heroines. Our stories have mainly been left untold. This book lifts the veil from some of these stories and places African Americans in the very marrow of Florida history.
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African Americans of Tampa
by Ersula Knox Odom
Tampa has a fascinating past that has been wonderfully documented with one exception: African Americans. This culturally rich community is virtually invisible in the eyes of history. Tampa’s population exploded during the early 1900s, and the building boom universally required the skills and talents of African Americans, who provided services, labor, and entrepreneurship in a massive form. They played significant roles in everything from Tampa’s wilderness era to its boomtown years and were key players in the first and second Seminole Wars with their Seminole alliance. African American soldiers captured Fort Brooke during the Civil War and fought in the Spanish-American War. Residents have endured Jim Crow, desegregation, and racial unrest yet thrived as entrepreneurs. Black Cubans, as part of the greater African American community, enabled Tampa’s world-renowned cigar industry. The photographs found in this volume clearly illustrate Tampa’s social and productive African American community.
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Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative (813) 273-3652 www.hcplc.org
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