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A near civil war swept Florida-and much of America-in the wake of World War I and Prohibition. It pitted white versus black, Protestant versus Catholic, wet versus dry, and savagery versus civilization. Age of Barbarity: The Forgotten Fight for the Soul of Florida is the untold story of this civil war, as lived through the eyes of the people who fought. Florida's conflict saw the storming of jails, the maiming of Catholic clergy, and the fierce resistance of patriots, black and white. The battle for modern Florida climaxed in an unlikely place: the small river city of Palatka. The Florida Ku Klux Klan reached the peak of its power there in 1926. And it was there that men and women of bravery and desperation dealt the Klan its most significant defeat. The multi-racial, multi-faith Florida we know today-much like the America we know-emerged from the crucible of the extraordinarily violent 15-year period between 1915 and 1930. The men and women of Palatka, Florida-soldiers, lawyers, workers, and business leaders-did far more than their share to bring it about. We should remember their names. No library descriptions found. |
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Age of Barbarity is history personalized, alternating clearly footnoted facts with dramatized fiction-style sections that display those facts with a strong seasoning of emotion. This book is history with the feel of a memoir. No doubt this is because Billy Townsend is descended from one of the men with a central role in the events reported and is able to bring a sense of the time and atmosphere that an outsider would not be able to construct.
History as a school subject tends to be treated as a list of dates and outcomes that fade once you leave the classroom. Classroom history is like looking at a coastline from 20,000 feet in the air: all the rough edges are smoothed out. This book brings you down to wave level, so that you felt the turbulance and tides battering real people who struggle, individually and as groups, with social injustice and personal danger.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in civil rights in this country. ( )