Beyond integration : the black freedom struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980 / J. Michael Butler.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469627496
- 1469627493
- 9781469627489
- 1469627485
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- Escambia County
- Racism -- Florida -- Escambia County -- History
- Civil rights movements -- Florida -- Escambia County -- History -- 20th century
- Escambia County (Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Civil rights movements
- Race relations
- Racism
- Florida -- Escambia County
- Ethnic & Race Studies
- Gender & Ethnic Studies
- Social Sciences
- 1900-1999
- 305.896/0730759990904 23
- E185.93.F5 B88 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : conflict, power, and the long civil rights movement in northwest Florida -- Patterns of protest in Escambia County -- The movement evolves -- Cultural imagery, school integration, and the lost cause -- Racial irritants -- Who shall we incarcerate? -- Opposition familiar and unanticipated -- The state of Florida v. B.J. Brooks and H.K. Matthews -- Clouds of interracial revolution -- The consequences of powerlessness -- Legacy of a struggle.
Print version record.
In 1975, Florida's Escambia County experienced a pernicious chain of events. A sheriff's deputy killed a young black man at point-blank range. Months of protests against police brutality followed. Viewing the events within the context of the broader civil rights movement, J. Michael Butler demonstrates that while activism of the previous decade destroyed most visible and dramatic signs of racial segregation, institutionalized forms of cultural racism still persisted.
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