| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.2

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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. By Paul Ortiz (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxviii plus 382 pp.).

Between 1876 and 1920, white Floridians resorted to every means imaginable, including law, fraud, and terror, in order to keep Afro-Americans disinfranchised. The 1920 election held the key to the fate of legal segregation in America and as early as January 1919, Afro-Americans in Florida planned a voter registration drive. The registration movement pursued goals that went far further than simply seeking the right to vote. It addressed the gravest problems that the Afro-American community in Florida faced under white domination: lynching, economic oppression, disfranchisement, and loss of dignity. In the process of this particular registration drive, leaders of the Afro-Americans showed great courage in joining the struggle and recruiting thousands of new voters.

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