Monthly Archives: February 2023
Florida and the march for Civil Rights in 1964
On this week’s Florida History Podcast, we close out our Black History Month series with a look at how events in Florida directly impacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s passage. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App […]
Black History Month: Nixon’s Florida Segregationist SCOTUS Pick
Many GOPers want you to believe President Joe Biden’s selection last year of Ketanji Brown Jackson a black woman with Florida roots as unprecedented in American history. Never before, they imply has race, gender or views on race been used to pick someone for the highest court in the land. Well, that is simply not […]
Black History Month -Podcast: Lynchings in Florida
On the latest Florida History Podcast we discuss Florida being the lynching capital of the United States, per capita between 1900 and 1950. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store apps for free which enable you to […]
Nikki Fried’s unforced errors can’t be tolerated by an FDP Chair
We’ve spent a lot of ink on this site in 2021 and 2022 regarding whether Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is someone the Democrats could afford to nominate for Governor. Her track record of unforced errors and gaffes hit a boiling point early in the race and she was roundly rejected by Democratic Primary voters. Never before in the […]
GOP and entrenched business interests put their fingers on the scale in the Democratic Primary last year – will they do it again?
The GOP and entrenched business interests in this state were fearful of a Charlie Crist restoration in the Governor’s Mansion. While it’s was arguably fair for those Democratic voters solely motivated by social issues or performance art to obsesses about Crist’s years as a GOP officeholder in the state, traditional Democrats like myself who focus […]
Remembering the shameful Johns Committee: McCarthyism in Florida
Florida History Podcast: Florida’s McCarthyism Committee Senator Charley Johns (D-Starke) is one of the best known figures in the Florida Political History for multiple dubious reasons. The leader of the infamous “Pork Chop Gang”. Johns became Governor in 1953 after Governor Dan McCarty the first Governor elected from southern Florida died just months after taking […]
Florida’s First African-American statewide official- Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs
Florida History Podcast :Florida’s first statewide African-American official, Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs. Johnathan Clarkson Gibbs served as the first black statewide official . The above linked podcast from 2021 discusses his career and legacy.
The Florida Squeeze 