Graduation Year
2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Florida Studies
Major Professor
Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D.
Co-Major Professor
Gary Mormino, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Thomas W. Smith, Ph.D.
Keywords
civil rights, race, organized demonstrations, protest, riots
Abstract
Recent decades have seen a shift in the focus of civil rights historiography. Building upon the exhaustive studies of national figures and events, and in search of new perspectives, many historians have concentrated on local movements often ignored or forgotten. Other than the work of a few local scholars, the civil rights movement as it occurred in St. Petersburg, Florida, has received little attention. Furthermore, the limited scholarship lacks the cohesion necessary to compare and contrast the movement with similar events throughout the state and across the nation. The story of St. Petersburg's active and significant struggle for social equality, placed within its proper context, adds another piece to a larger picture and continues to reveal the complex nature of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Scholar Commons Citation
Jones, Peyton L., "Struggle In The Sunshine City: The Movement For Racial Equality In St. Petersburg Florida 1955-1968" (2010). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1672
