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  • Baptist, Edward. Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

  • Baptist, Edward E., “The Migration of Planters to Antebellum Florida: Kinship and Power," Journal of Southern History 62 (August, 1996): 527-554

  • Bush, Gregory. White Sand Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami’s Virginia Key. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2016.

  • Butler, J. Michael. Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

  • Cassanello, Robert. To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013.

  • Colburn, David. Racial Change and Community Crisis: St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1991.

  • Connolly, N. D. B. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

  • Dodd, William G, "Early Education In Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary, now Florida State University, Part 1,” The Florida Historical Quarterly 27, no 1 (July 1948) 1-27

  • Dunn, Marvin. Black Miami in the Twentieth Century.  Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1997.

  • Emmons, Caroline. “‘Not a Single Battle But Rather a Real War’: The Fight to Equalize Teachers’ Salaries in Florida in the 1930s and 1940s,” Florida Historical Quarterly 81, no. 4 (April 2003): 418-439.

  • Fendrich, James Max, Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: NY, University of New York Press, 1993.

  • Gillian Frank, “‘The Civil Rights of Parents’: Race and Conservative Politics in Anita Bryant’s Campaign against Gay Rights in 1970s Florida,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 22, no. 1 (January 2013): 126–60.

  • González-Tennant, Edward, The Rosewood Massacre. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2018.

  • Green, Ben. The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore. New York, NY: Free Press, 1999.

  • Hobbs, Tameka. Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2015.

  • Howard, Walter, “Vigilante Justice and National Reaction: The 1937 Tallahassee Double Lynching,” Florida Historical Quarterly 67, no. 1 (July 1988): 32-51

  • Kennedy, Stetson, Klan Unmasked. Tuscaloosa, AL: Alabama University Press, 2010.

  • King, Gilbert, The Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. New York: NY, Harper University Press, 2012.

  • McGovern, James. Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

  • McGuire, Danielle L. “‘It was like All of Us Had Been Raped,’: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle,” Journal of American History 91, no. 3 (December 2004)” 906-931

  • Ortiz, Paul.  Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.

  • Rabby, Glenda. The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press; Reprint edition, 2016.

  • Rogers, William Warren and Erica R. Clark, The Croom Family and Goodwood Plantation (Athens, GA; University of Georgia, 2010)

  • Rose, Chanelle. The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.

  • Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Canter Brown. ""A Monument to the Progress of the Race": The Intellectual and Political Origins of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1865-1887." The Florida Historical Quarterly 85, no. 1 (2006): 1-41.

  • Smith, Martin O. “Nitre Bureau Operations in Florida,” The Florida Historical Quarterly 74, no. 1 (Summer, 1995): 43-44.

  • Warner, Lee H. Free Men in an Age of Servitude: Three Generations of a Black Family. Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky, 1992.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_african_american_studies/17

  • Weston, Marna R. 2005. The Letter from Leon County Jail: Patricia Stephens Due and the Tallahassee, Florida Civil Rights Movement. MS thesis, Florida State University. http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-1143

  • White, Derrick. Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.