Florida

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  9/9/2020
  

  Black Scuba Divers Document Slave Shipwrecks Forgotten For Generations

  Columbia University professor Christopher Brown says the number of slave shipwrecks that researchers have been able to confirm are the absolute minimum, and that the true number of shipwrecked slave ships are likely much higher. The work of a Florida diving group hopes to change that. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  ‘Ax Handle Saturday’: The Klan’s Vicious Attack On Black Protesters In Florida 60 Years Ago

  Historian Clayborne Carson notes that this incident marked a shift in the nature of racist backlash during the sit-in movement.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/17/2020
  

  The Bush-Gore Recount Is an Omen for 2020

  An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern history.

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  7/25/2020
  

  Gus Bilirakis Embraces Aide With Background In Sons Of Confederate Veterans

  The Sons of Confederate Veterans pushes a historical narrative that "distorts the truth" said historian Adam Domby.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/26/2020
  

  Attacked at a 1964 Civil Rights Protest, Mimi Jones, Who Died at 73, was the Subject of an Iconic Photo

  “All of a sudden, the water in front of my face started to bubble up like a volcanic eruption,” she told WGBH. “I could barely breathe. It was entering my nose and my eyes.”

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  7/20/2020
  

  Living History Or Playing War, Brooksville Raid Reenactment Ends After 40 Years

  Glenn LaFantasie and Kevin M. Levin comment on Civil War Reenactments as a 40 year-old Florida event is cancelled in 2020. 

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• SOURCE: News4Jax
  7/5/2020
  

  Crowd Rallies to Keep Confederate Memorial in Downtown St. Augustine

  A group called Defend St. Augustine has more than 300 signatures on a petition to ask the commission to reconsider its decision to remove the stone honoring the city’s Confederate war dead.

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• SOURCE: Florida Phoenix
  7/1/2020
  

  A Push to Make Black History Classes a College Graduation Requirement in FL is Mostly Talk but no Action

  Right now, Florida law requires African American history to be taught at K-12 public schools, though some schools may not be teaching it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2020
  

  Generations of Rosewood Descendants Keep a Once-Forgotten History Alive

  This photo essay illustrates how a Florida community keeps its history, albeit painful, alive.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2020
  

  After Reparations

  How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  2/19/20
  

  Harriet Tubman Highway approved in Miami-Dade, replacing ‘Dixie’ over Civil War legacy

  Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously approved renaming the county’s “Dixie” highways after Harriet Tubman.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  8/31/19
  

  As Hurricane Dorian Threatens Florida, Gov. DeSantis & Trump—Who Haven't Curbed CO2 Emissions—Should Resign

  by Juan Cole

  If you don’t recognize the cause of a problem, you can’t fix the problem.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-13-18
  

  Who Gets the Last Word in a Disputed Senate Race? The Senate.

  That is because the Constitution says that the ultimate arbiter of who gets a Senate seat is the Senate itself — not election officials or the courts.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-7-18
  

  The long, racist history of Florida’s now-repealed ban on felons voting

  In 1868, Congress had just forced Florida to rewrite its constitution to allow every man the right to vote, but adding thousands of newly eligible black residents to the rolls would abruptly make whites a voting minority. Combined with postwar laws that made it easy to saddle black residents with criminal records, a lifetime voting ban on anyone with a felony conviction legislators knew they could suppress black votes indefinitely.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-17-18
  

  How slave labor built the state of Florida — decades after the Civil War

  by Bryan Bowman and Kathy Roberts Forde

  Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3-25-18
  

  2,000-Year-Old Mosaics Unearthed Under Florida Art Museum

  The relics came from ancient Antioch and were buried by museum officials in 1989 for storage purposes.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-19-18
  

  Florida to replace Confederate statue in US Capitol

  A statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith will be replaced with one of Mary McLeod Bethune, who founded a school that would eventually become historically black Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-18-18
  

  ‘We say now’: The day more than 25,000 Florida teachers resigned over pay and school funding

  It was Feb. 16, 1968, a Friday, and a sign of what was coming that Monday in Florida: the nation’s first statewide teachers strike.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-13-16
  

  Ancient tools and bone found in Florida could help rewrite the story of the first Americans

  The researchers say the find is unequivocal proof that people were in Florida more than 1,000 years earlier than anyone had imagined.

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• SOURCE: The Florida Times-Union
  7-10-14
  

  Archaeologists mount search for lost French fleet of 1565

  The hunt is expected to wrap up in August.