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As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 16.6% of the population of Florida. [4] The African-American presence in the peninsula extends as far back as the early 18th century, when African-American slaves escaped from slavery in Georgia into the swamps of the peninsula.
The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six black people were killed, but eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150.
The Florida legislature has passed a law requiring that the Ocoee Election Day massacre be taught in Florida schools. [4] On June 23, 2020, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law House Bill 1213 (2020), which directs the Commissioner of Education's African-American History Task Force to determine ways in which the 1920 Ocoee Election Day ...
Women's suffrage car in a parade in Orlando, Florida in 1913. After Chamberlain left, women's suffrage mainly remained dormant in Florida until around 1912. [5] One exception was a petition to the United States Congress for a federal women's suffrage amendment that was circulated by John Schnarr of Orlando in 1907.
"The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 48 (3): 299– 312. JSTOR 30161501. LWV (1995). "When Women Vote: A Study of the Pensacola Suffragist Movement and the Founding of the League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area and Its History" (PDF). The League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area.
African-American women began experiencing the "Anti-Black" women's suffrage movement. [12] The National Woman Suffrage Association considered the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs to be a liability to the association due to Southern white women's attitudes toward black women getting the vote. [13]
On this day a group of young black teens attempted to sit down at a whites-only lunch counter for hamburgers and egg sandwiches. In the year of 1960, was a year of regular sit-ins for civil rights activist in the south. On this day, more than 200 white men who carried around wooden ax handles viciously attacked innocent, unarmed black protestors.
The earliest known Black American journalists in Florida were John T. Shuften and John Wallace, who both worked for newspapers that were otherwise white. The first newspaper by and for Black Americans in Florida was The New Era, which Josiah T. Walls purchased in 1873. [1]