Explore centuries of freedom struggles, political development, community histories, and cultural achievements in this list of our books on the African American heritage of Florida. Including the eras of slavery, segregation, and civil rights, these books delve into both pivotal moments and daily life throughout the Black history of the state.
Africa in Florida
Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State
Amanda B. Carlson, Robin Poynor
The African American Heritage of Florida
David Colburn, Jane Landers
African American Studies
50 Years at the University of Florida
Jacob U'Mofe Gordon, Paul Ortiz
The American Beach Cookbook
Marsha Dean Phelts
An American Beach for African Americans
Marsha Dean Phelts
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, Revised and Expanded Edition
African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Daniel L. Schafer
Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
Marvin Dunn
The Black Seminoles
History of a Freedom-Seeking People
Kenneth W. Porter
Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution
Richard Brust
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home
Racial Violence in Florida
Tameka Bradley Hobbs
For a Great and Grand Purpose
The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905
Canter Brown, Jr., Larry E. Rivers
Fort Mose, Second Edition
Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom
Kathleen Deagan, Darcie MacMahon, Jane Landers
From Death Row to Freedom
The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
Phillip A. Hubbart
Harold Newton
The Original Highwayman
Gary Monroe
The Highwaymen
Florida's African-American Landscape Painters
Gary Monroe
Idella Parker
From Reddick to Cross Creek
Idella Parker, Bud Crussell, Liz Crussell
James Hudson
Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights
Larry Omar Rivers
Josiah Walls
Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction
Peter D. Klingman
Just Freedom
Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
Daniel Rivero
Justice Pursued
The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
Bruce Horovitz
The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill
Legendary African American Desperado
Larry L. Massey
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
Nathaniel Millett
Mary Ann Carroll
First Lady of the Highwaymen
Gary Monroe
Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
Ashley Robertson Preston
Maximum Vantage
New Selected Columns
Bill Maxwell
The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
Christine Ardalan
Racial Change and Community Crisis
St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980
David R. Colburn
Remembering Paradise Park
Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs
Lu Vickers, Cynthia Wilson-Graham
The Rosewood Massacre
An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence
Edward González-Tennant
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum
Race, Class, and Gender in the South
Tammy D. Evans
Slavery in Florida
Territorial Days to Emancipation
Larry Eugene Rivers
To Render Invisible
Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville
Robert Cassanello
To Tell a Black Story of Miami
Tatiana D. McInnis
A Town without Pity
AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South
Jason Vuic
White Sand Black Beach
Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami's Virginia Key
Gregory W. Bush
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
M. Genevieve West