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
The African American Heritage of Florida
African American Studies
50 Years at the University of Florida
The American Beach Cookbook
An American Beach for African Americans
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, Revised and Expanded Edition
African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
The Black Seminoles
History of a Freedom-Seeking People
Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home
Racial Violence in Florida
For a Great and Grand Purpose
The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905
Fort Mose, Second Edition
Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom
From Death Row to Freedom
The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
Harold Newton
The Original Highwayman
The Highwaymen
Florida's African-American Landscape Painters
Idella Parker
From Reddick to Cross Creek
James Hudson
Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights
Josiah Walls
Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction
Just Freedom
Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
Justice Pursued
The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill
Legendary African American Desperado
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
Mary Ann Carroll
First Lady of the Highwaymen
Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
Maximum Vantage
New Selected Columns
The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
Racial Change and Community Crisis
St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980
Remembering Paradise Park
Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs
The Rosewood Massacre
An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum
Race, Class, and Gender in the South
Slavery in Florida
Territorial Days to Emancipation
To Render Invisible
Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville
To Tell a Black Story of Miami
A Town without Pity
AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South
White Sand Black Beach
Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami's Virginia Key
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture