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Publication Date
1995
Abstract
Historians Canter Brown and Larry Rivers discuss the struggles of African Americans during Reconstruction. Included are mention of Jonathan Gibbs, a Black Secretary of State; Josiah T. Walls, Florida's first Black congressman; Florida's first Republican governor, Harrison Reed; and Governor Ossian Hart.
Keywords
African Americans, Race relations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination, Racism, Jim Crowism, Voting, Reconstruction (U.S. history 1865-1877), Constitutions, United States Civil War (1861-1865), Ossian Bingley Hart (1821-1874), Poll tax
Extent
00:05:48; 4 page transcript
Language
English
Digital Date
2026
Media Type
Audio recordings
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
fhc_audio-1100
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Dudley, Bill; Brown, Canter; and Rivers, Larry, "African Americans in Reconstruction Florida" (1995). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 101.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/101
