Pioneers of Resistance
Against The Current vol. 123
Feeley, Dianne
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/229
Date Written: 2006-07-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13266
Emancipation Betrayed attempts to fill in the historical gap between the end of Reconstruction and the post-World War I period through examining Black organizing in the state of Florida. The author, Paul Ortiz, worked on oral histories for the study "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South" at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His research peeled back a lineage of struggle several generations long, connecting the post-World War II civil rights movement to how African Americans dealt with the reimposition of anti-Black laws following the collapse of Reconstruction:
