Tag Archives: Reconstruction
Florida voter rolls during reconstruction
Every now and then especially on Holiday weekends I explore through Florida Memory, the outstanding site from the Division of Library & Information Services. This weekend I came across this gem from the Reconstruction era – The voter roles for the state from 1867. The Fifteenth Amendment had yet to be ratified but Republican-led reconstruction […]
Flashback Friday: Ivy League elite theories lead to Florida lynchings.
The Ivy League which is today diverse, multicultural experience was once upon a time the bastion of white, protestant elite and racist thought. The so-called Dunning School of history which grew out of Colombia University in the early 1900’s. Quoting Wikipedia: The Dunning School refers to a group of historians who shared a historiographical school of […]
The Florida Squeeze 