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Thereafter, Florida continued to live up to its position as the southernmost state with among the most heinous acts of terrorism committed anywhere in the South. Violence had become such an accepted fact of life that, in 1950, the Florida governor’s special investigator, Jefferson Elliott, observed that there had been so many mob executions in one

of government in 1967. Under pressure from these and other critical lobbies, legislators made key concessions to accommodate conservative opposition and sustain necessary funding. As part of a 1967 amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act, Congress required each center to provide care only for people below the poverty line, rather than for the com

The Bahamas took a distinctly different course in relationship to the history of money-making than much of the region. African Americans who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War settled there to be free. Many of them came from the Low Country. In 1818, Great Britain declared that all enslaved Africans who set foot in the Bahamas would be

Accusée d’être infiltrée par les communistes, la NACCP a mis en place une véritable politique anticommuniste, visant les militants anti-impérialistes et, au premier chef, Williams, soi-disant pour tenter d’acquérir une certaine respectabilité.

Denmark Vesey, one of the South Carolina’s most significant enslaved insurrectionists, was once a member of Mother Emanuel. It had been founded in 1816. City leaders forced them to close their doors in 1818. Too much freedom happened there. And after Vesey’s revolt, the building was burned to the ground in 1822, only to be rebuilt. The parishioners

After listening to Brother Bill’s sermon against the amendment to protect homosexuals, Bryant went home and called Ruth Shack. For more than an hour, she begged Shack to withdraw sponsorship. Red leather-bound Bible in hand, Bryant even read Leviticus to her. Shack’s response was to quote the Constitution.29

After the Cuban Revolution, which promised racial equality and socialism, elite and White Cubans descended upon Miami. They settled in “Little Havana” and Hialeah. In 1963, Miami established the first modern bilingual school program in the United States. Though it raised the ire of some Anglos, the Jim Crow stratification of the city allowed Cubans