Part of a presentation for the Florida Humanities Council Teacher's Center workshop. This presentation explore the African-American experience after the Civil War.

1. The African-American Journey

3. Black
Voting
Power
• Because blacks in South Carolina vastly outnumbered whites, the newly enfranchised
voters were able to send many African- American representatives to the state assembly,
outnumbered the whites.

4. Florida & Reconstruction
• Beginning in 1868,
Reconstruction
program by Congress
in Florida allowed
lawmakers to pursue
sweeping reforms.
Saint Augustine, Fla. Artillery inside Fort Marion; tents on rampart,
taken between 1861 and 1865

5. II. Southern Redemption and African Americans

6. "We regard the
Reconstruction Acts
(so called) of
Congress as
usurpations, and
unconstitutional, revol
utionary, and void." -
Democratic Platform

8. "The Union as it
Was” Harper's
Weekly, 1874

9. The Redeemed South?
"Everything Points to a Democratic Victory This Fall”

10. Self-Help, Autonomy & Danger:
Community Building in New South

11. • Exodusters
Movement
– Almost 20,000 blacks
left Mississippi and
Louisiana for the
frontiers of Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado,
and Oklahoma.

12. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams,
The Liberian Exodus. An Account
of the Voyage of the First
Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and
Their Reception at Monrovia, with a
Description of Liberia--Its Customs
and Civilization, Romances and
Prospects. (Charleston, S. C.: The News and
Courier Book Presses, 1878.)
Liberian Exodus Association, The Liberian
Exodus. First Voyage of the Azor. Liberia a
Delightful Country. Climate, Soil and Productions.
Character of the People in Liberia; and How They
Live. Full Information of the Exodus Movement.
(Charleston, S. C.: W. J. Oliver's Print, 1878.)

13. The Rise of Peonage

14. Criminalizing Identity

15. Sanford, Florida 1880s
In 1883, white workers in Sanford
responded to poor working
condition by killing a black
worker who accepted lower
wages.

16. Education As Defense
Tuskegee History Class, photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1902)

17. Snow Hill Institute (Alabama 1902)

18. Industrial Philosophy

19. Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute:
Daytona Beach, Florida (1912?)
Mary McLeod Bethune is third from left. This photo was possibly taken inside the original Faith Hall
of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls.

20. Washington’s
Reality

22. Negro Building at Jamestown Exposition

23. Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition

24. Giles B. Jackson D. Webster Davis
Jackson was one of the organizer for the Negro Exhibition at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial
Exposition (1907).