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“A Change Is Gonna Come”: Music And Its Role In The Civil Rights Movement, Nathanial Humphrey Dec 2021

“A Change Is Gonna Come”: Music And Its Role In The Civil Rights Movement, Nathanial Humphrey

Honors College Theses

This thesis paper will provide thorough research and analysis regarding the role of music during the Civil Rights Movement. It would be the goal of this paper to answer the questions of whether or not music had an impact on the Civil Rights Movement, and if so, then in what ways and how was this conveyed through the music.This paper aims to discuss different genres of music, including but not limited to; jazz, rock, pop, blues, etc. In order to answer these questions, this paper will be analyzing songs written by artists during the movement, looking for forms of rhetoric …

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Index To Volume Lvi, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Index To Volume Lvi, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Directors' Meeting, December 10, 1977, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Directors' Meeting, December 10, 1977, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the Directors' Meeting, December 10, 1977

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History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Quarterly, National Register of Historic Places, Announcements and Activities, Notices

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

TORIES, DONS, AND REBELS: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN BRITISH WEST FLORIDA, by J. Barton Starr, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; ZORA NEALE HURSTON: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, by Robert E. Hemenway, reviewed by Kevin M. McCarthy; THE LIVING DOCK AT PANACEA, by Jack Rudloe, reviewed by Wyatt Blassingame; FEARLESS AND FREE: THE SEMINOLE INDIAN WAR, 1835-1842, by George Walton, reviewed by Frank Laumer; AFRICANS AND SEMINOLES: FROM REMOVAL TO EMANCIPATION, by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., reviewed by James W. Covington; RELIGION IN THE OLD SOUTH, by Donald G. Mathews, reviewed by Walter B. Posey; ADAMS AND JEFFERSON: A REVOLUTIONARY DIALOGUE, by …

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Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following paragraphs list recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida’s university, college, and public libraries. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or institution in question.

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A New Guide To Sources Of Spanish Florida History, D. Lorne Mcwatters Dec 2021

A New Guide To Sources Of Spanish Florida History, D. Lorne Mcwatters

Florida Historical Quarterly

Research into Spanish Borderlands history received major impetus from a recent National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida, Gainesville. In August 1977, the Endowment awarded $127,000 to the Yonge Library to initiate a three-year project to prepare a guide to the Florida Borderlands collection. The Spanish Florida Borderlands Project represents the first concerted effort to organize and make these materials accessible.

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Seminole Folktales, Hedvig Tetens Evans Dec 2021

Seminole Folktales, Hedvig Tetens Evans

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Florida in the early 1950s when these stories were gathered, folktales were still being kept alive among some of the oldest Seminole Indians. All of the following tales were collected at the Brighton Reservation which is located in the center of the state northwest of Lake Okeechobee. It is one of three federal Indian reservations in Florida. The Seminole words that are used are in the Muskogee (Cow Creek) dialect. This is different from the Hitchiti dialect used by the Miccosukees who live on the Tamiami Trail west of Miami.

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Torment Of Pestilence: Yellow Fever Epidemics In Pensacola, George F. Pearce Dec 2021

Torment Of Pestilence: Yellow Fever Epidemics In Pensacola, George F. Pearce

Florida Historical Quarterly

For more than a century, yellow fever epidemics intermittently swept over Pensacola, Florida, producing a high mortality, disrupting its economic and social life, dividing community leaders and medical authorities over courses of action in combatting them, causing untold numbers to flee, some permanently, and keeping those who remained in a state of demoralizing terror. The approach of summer each year invariably brought with it the fear of a repetition of the dreadful experience. This atmosphere of apprehension and utter helplessness was nourished by ignorance about the origin, transmission, and prevention of the disease. It was not until 1900 that medical …

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Colored Town: Miami's Black Community, 1896-1930, Paul S. George Dec 2021

Colored Town: Miami's Black Community, 1896-1930, Paul S. George

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the time of Miami’s incorporation in 1896, the fortunes of black Americans had declined to their lowest level since the Civil War. The heady illusions and notable accomplishments of the freedmen during Reconstruction had succumbed to the harsh realities of economic dependency and the restoration of white Democratic rule in the South. Increasingly, blacks found themselves scapegoats for political and economic tensions and targets of virulent new doctrines of racial inferiority, resulting in widespread disfranchisement, segregation (Jim Crow) legislation, and increasing white intimidation and violence in Florida and elsewhere in the South. The problems worsened in the early decades …

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The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony At La Chua And The Determinants Of Economic Expansion In Seventeenth-Century Florida, Amy Bushnell Dec 2021

The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony At La Chua And The Determinants Of Economic Expansion In Seventeenth-Century Florida, Amy Bushnell

Florida Historical Quarterly

Spanish Florida has the historical reputation of a bleak and unfriendly place, unproductive, impoverished, and unhealthy, where governors and soldiers, friars and passive Indian converts were unable to defend their own borders, much less make the land self-sustaining. The doleful letters from officials of the colony about the lateness or inadequacy of the garrison’s situado have made an impact on researchers, if they did not on the Crown. In recent years, however, examples of economic activity have been examined that belie this picture of total dependency. There were times during the seventeenth century when Spanish Florida approached self-sufficiency and was …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 56, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

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History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Confederation Workshops, Florida College Teachers of History, Jacksonville History Conference, State and Local History Awards, Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, Announcements and Activities

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE ENTERPRISE OF FLORIDA: PEDRO MENENDEZ DE AVILES AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF 1565-1568, by Eugene Lyon, reviewed by Michael V. Gannon; FLORIDA POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1877-1893, by Edward C. Williamson, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; OGLETHORPE IN AMERICA, by Phinizy Spalding, reviewed by Jack P. Greene; COLONIAL GEORGIA, A HISTORY, by Kenneth Coleman, reviewed by David R. Chesnutt; THE PAPERS OF GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE, VOLUME I, DECEMBER 1766-DECEMBER 1776, edited by Richard K. Showman, Margaret Cobb, and Robert E. McCarthy, reviewed by Kenneth Coleman; THIS AFFAIR OF LOUISIANA, by Alexander DeConde, reviewed by Gilbert C. Din; THE …

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Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters theses completed in 1977 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.

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The White Springs Post Office Caper, Jerrell H. Shofner Dec 2021

The White Springs Post Office Caper, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

With the 1885 constitution ratified and the state’s poll tax law about to become effective, the 1888 election was the last in which large numbers of blacks voted and was the last in which the Republican party posed a serious threat to the predominance of the Democrats for many decades. Even then the Democrats carried the state races by comfortable majorities. But the 1888 race had been an exciting election in which some Conservative-Democrats in the black belt counties had left themselves vulnerable to charges of violating federal election laws. This caused concern among them when Democrat Grover Cleveland was …

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Career Of A "Carpetbagger": Malachi Martin In Florida, Mildred L. Fryman Dec 2021

Career Of A "Carpetbagger": Malachi Martin In Florida, Mildred L. Fryman

Florida Historical Quarterly

The epithet "carpetbagger" holds such a solid place in the vocabulary of American history that it would be difficult to describe the nation’s Reconstruction experience without utilizing it. In 1868, the editors of a Pensacola newspaper expressed the attitude towards “carpetbaggers” which prevailed among white Southerners. “While crushed beneath a grinding military despotism, hireling spies and impudent adventurers have swarmed upon . . . [us] taking a despicable advantage of . . . [our] weakness, misfortunes and suffering to traduce, vilify and malign . . . [us]. . . . Upstarts, without name, character or position in their own land, …

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Private Societies And The Maintenance Of Seminole Tribal Integrity, 1899-1957, Harry A. Kersey, Jr. Dec 2021

Private Societies And The Maintenance Of Seminole Tribal Integrity, 1899-1957, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century the Seminole Indians of southern Florida were a relatively independent and prosperous people. The small remnant group which remained in Florida following the Third Seminole War (1855-58), numbering fewer than 200, evaded army efforts to capture them, and they faded away into the fastness of the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. For several decades they lived in virtual isolation from the outside world, venturing forth only for occasional trading visits to frontier villages such as Miami, Fort Meade, and Fort Myers. During these years they completed the last stage of an ethnoecologic …

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The Ambush Of Captain John Williams, U.S.M.C.: Failure Of The East Florida Invasion, 1812-1813, J. H. Alexander Dec 2021

The Ambush Of Captain John Williams, U.S.M.C.: Failure Of The East Florida Invasion, 1812-1813, J. H. Alexander

Florida Historical Quarterly

Twelve-mile Swamp lies northwest of St. Augustine between Interstate 95 and U.S. Highway 1, the old King’s Road. The heavily wooded swamp, named for its approximate distance from St. Augustine, is a forbidding area of cypress bogs and palmetto thickets. The swamp has probably changed little since 1812 when, in one violent half-hour, it became the focal point of an extraordinary, undeclared military contest between the United States and Spain.

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A Free Facetious Gentleman, Jean Savy, Double Agent?, Aileen Moore Topping Dec 2021

A Free Facetious Gentleman, Jean Savy, Double Agent?, Aileen Moore Topping

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Spanish minister, Don Joseph Patino, had read other accounts of the alarming growth of the new English colony called Georgia. He recalled the Franciscan friar’s report of a conversation with an Indian chief who had been brought to England from Georgia by Mr. James Oglethorpe. The chief had stated that the English would use his people to capture San Augustin de la Florida. A French engineer who had come to Madrid to solicit payment for past service in the Indies had presented a description of present conditions in Cuba, Florida, and Carolina. He had learned in South Carolina that …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 56, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

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Seventy-Fifth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Seventy-Fifth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the Seventy-fifth Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

CRACKER MESSIAH: GOVERNOR SIDNEY J. CATTS OF FLORIDA, by Wayne Flynt, reviewed by Dewey W. Grantham; FLORIDA TERRITORY IN 1844: THE DIARY OF MASTER EDWARD C. ANDERSON, UNITED STATES NAVY, edited by W. Stanley Hoole, reviewed by George E. Buker; PROCEEDINGS OF THE GULF COAST HISTORY AND HUMANITIES CONFERENCE, VOLUME VI, THE CULTURAL LEGACY OF THE GULF COAST, 1870-1940, edited by Lucius F. Ellsworth and Linda V. Ellsworth, reviewed by Gloria Jahoda; GOLD, GALLEONS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: A HISTORY OF THE 1715 SPANISH PLATE FLEET AND THE TRUE STORY OF THE GREAT FLORIDA TREASURE FIND, by Robert F. Burgess and Carl …

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History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Olustee Battlefield, John C. Pace Library Acquisitions, Florida Miliary Collection, Conferences, Publications

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Bernardo De Galvez's Combat Diary For The Battle Of Pensacola, 1781, Maury Baker Dec 2021

Bernardo De Galvez's Combat Diary For The Battle Of Pensacola, 1781, Maury Baker

Florida Historical Quarterly

There are four contemporary versions, three Spanish and one English, of the events leading to the Spanish capture of English-held Pensacola, May 8, 1781. A long line of scholars have written about it, using archival sources in Spain and England. The last of them, N. Orwin Rush, in his incisive and valuable monograph, Spain’s Final Triumph Over Great Britain in the Gulf of Mexico: The Battle of Pensacola, March 9 to May 8, 1781, relied heavily upon the diary of Bernardo de Galvez, which was believed to be available only in its printed version.

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Civil War Letters Of Major General James Patton Anderson, Margaret Anderson Uhler Dec 2021

Civil War Letters Of Major General James Patton Anderson, Margaret Anderson Uhler

Florida Historical Quarterly

In a time when patriotism was among the greatest of American virtues, few men pursued it more passionately than General James Patton Anderson of the Confederate army. Born in Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee, February 16, 1822, he was the son of Margaret Adair and Colonel William Preston Anderson, a veteran of the War of 1812. His maternal grandfather was General John Adair, a hero in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812, and the eighth governor of Kentucky.

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The Heavenly Planation: A Seventeenth-Century Mention Of Florida, Nancy Lee-Riffe Dec 2021

The Heavenly Planation: A Seventeenth-Century Mention Of Florida, Nancy Lee-Riffe

Florida Historical Quarterly

During England's civil war in the seventeenth century, British journalism and newspapers got their start. Legions of newssheets were written and distributed. Though some of them ran for several years and hundreds of issues, most were only short-lived ventures. The underground Royalist papers had a particularly difficult time. One of these, of which only three issues have survived, is Mercurius Aulicus (For King Charles II). A weekly published in 1649, its intent is to attack and mock the actions of the new government and to spur loyalty and support for Charles, the son of the beheaded king. In it Florida …

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A Love-Mad Man: Senator Charles W. Jones Of Florida, Judy Nicholas Etemadi Dec 2021

A Love-Mad Man: Senator Charles W. Jones Of Florida, Judy Nicholas Etemadi

Florida Historical Quarterly

Following ten years of service in the United States Senate, Charles W. Jones of Pensacola was in a strong position to serve Florida when the forty-ninth Congress convened on December 7, 1885. As an Irish immigrant, he had used his background to aid Grover Cleveland’s successful 1884 presidential campaign. A publicized trip to Ireland in the summer of 1883 and addresses to large audiences of Irish-Americans had channelled votes to the Democratic party. As a result, Jones was regarded as a leader in the party. The inauguration of a Democratic president, whose campaign he had materially assisted, vaulted Jones into …

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A View Of Spanish West Florida: Selected Letters Of Governor Juan Vicente Folch, David H. White Dec 2021

A View Of Spanish West Florida: Selected Letters Of Governor Juan Vicente Folch, David H. White

Florida Historical Quarterly

The waning years of the eighteenth century were a time of conflict and turmoil. Europe was convulsed by the wars of the French Revolution and their repercussions were felt throughout the world, including America. The isolated frontier province of Florida, so prized by Spain because of its strategic location to the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic shipping routes was in an exposed position. Besides the threats from the English and the French, Spanish officials in St. Augustine and Pensacola had to be concerned with the illicit activities of privateers, particularly along the northeast coast of Florida, antagonistic …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 56, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

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