Black History of Florida: A Reading List

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

University Press of Florida
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