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Title The beast in Florida : a history of anti-black violence / Marvin Dunn.
Author Dunn, Marvin, 1940-
Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  FLORIDA 305.896 DUN    Lib Use Only
Description 243 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The contexts of anti-black violence in Florida -- The oppression of Florida blacks -- Post-civil war anti-black violence -- Pre-Rosewood anti-black violence: selected incidents (1916-1922) -- The Rosewood massacre (1923) -- Post-Rosewood incidents (1934-1945) -- Pre-civil rights era anti-black violence: selected incidents (1949-1961).
Summary A chronicle of the incidents of racial violence in Florida from Reconstruction through the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Subject Racism -- Florida -- History.
Race discrimination -- Florida -- History.
African Americans -- Florida -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Florida -- History.
Florida -- Race relations.
ocls african american adult books
ISBN 9780813041636 (alk. paper) : $24.95
0813041635 (alk. paper)