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The Florida NAACP wants its national board to issue a travel advisory for the state, urging Black people to avoid visiting Florida in response to anti-Black legislation put forth by Republican Gov ...
The history of African Americans in Florida can be divided into several eras, the dates varying by location: 1) Slavery until 1865. A few slaves had been freed, but were never free from the threat of being again enslaved. 2) Reconstruction after the American Civil War. 3) Remainder of 19th century. 4) Terrorist activity against African Americans.
In a challenge to the state’s new anti-DEI rules, the head of the NAACP is calling on Black student athletes to reconsider attending Florida public colleges and universities.
Anthony Witherspoon stands in the Coconut Grove Sports Hall of Fame in the Miami neighborhood of west Coconut Grove, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
The arsonist, a black man who was a member of the church, pled guilty in March 2019. [25] [26] [27] 2019 March 26 St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, Louisiana. This was the first in a series of three historically black churches over 100 years old, burned within a
Like Miami Beach now, elected government officials of “Ft. Liquordale” attempted to tame the chaos after more than 350,000 students packed the beach in 1985.
Because the state had a large black-majority population (nearly sixty percent in 1890), [71] white Democrats had narrow margins in many counties and feared a possible resurgence of black Republican voters at the polls. To remove the black threat, the General Assembly created an indirect literacy test, called the "Eight Box Law".
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