Civil Rights
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Avon Park City Council Throws Out All Black Votes in 1951 Election
The good old boy system of Avon Park was shaken to its core in 1949. That September, five out of […]
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Southern States Feared Negro Domination
Nothing was more terrifying to wealthy landowners in the post-Confederate South than an empowered black electorate. The suffrage of the […]
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The Illusion of Freedom: African Americans in 1890s Florida
Despite being granted their freedom some thirty years prior, freed slaves in turn of the century Florida were still barely […]