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Post-reconstruction policies allowed civil rights for blacks to lapse. Black voters and black politicians vanished under threats from reactionary whites. [9] Per capita lynching was highest in Florida than any other state from 1900 to 1930. Offenders were often known but no legal proceedings ensued.
Florida's purchase by the United States from Spain in 1819 (effective 1821) was primarily a measure to strengthen the system of slavery on Southern plantations, by denying potential runaways the formerly safe haven of Florida. Florida became a slave state, seceded, and passed laws to exile or enslave free blacks.
With his dental practice financially destitute after the loss of his white patients, and the safety of his wife and children uncertain, Robert Hayling decided to move to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in 1966. [25] The black Florida Normal Industrial and Memorial College, whose students had been involved in the protests, felt itself unwelcome in St ...
Police in New Jersey arrested an 11-year-old boy Thursday for online threats made earlier this month to a Florida Keys elementary school, according to law enforcement in the island chain.
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 ...
As many as 300 black people were killed and 10,000 left homeless after whites attacked and destroyed the Greenwood district of Tulsa, known as "Black Wall Street". 1922 Jay, Florida: 175 Black residents fled the town after a death of a white farmer who was shot by a black farmer in self-defense. [20] [21] January 1923 Rosewood, Florida
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A Florida Keys man was booked into county jail Tuesday after deputies say he told a local attorney he planned to kill a judge. Alexander Michael Sardinas, who lives in the Upper Keys area of ...