Escambia County Fla

Heritage of Escambia County, Florida

• Categories: Escambia County (Fla.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007-06
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Escambia County, Fla., Collection

• Author(s): Leora M. Sutton

• Categories: Agriculture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1822
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• Publisher: Unknown

A collection of single items pertaining to Escambia County and including imprints, publications, correspondence, and other papers. Subjects include the Escambia County Volunteer Fireman's Association, Northwest Florida Comprehensive Health Planning Council, Escambia Republican Executive Committee, Escambia Oil Company, Escarosa Humanities Center, water temperatures in the Pensacola estuary, vegetation of Santa Rosa Island, Escambia Bay oysters, lower Escambia River, Southern States Lumber Co., agriculture and history of Molino, Fla., place names in Escambia County, and the creation of the town of South Flomaton. Includes an anonymous historical sketch of schools in Century, Fla.; an index to...

History of Escambia County, Florida

• Author(s): Henry Clay Armstrong, Celia Myrover Robinson

• Categories: Escambia County (Fla.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1930
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Lands in Escambia County, Fla., to be Used for a Public Park. April 20 (calendar Day, July 18), 1922. -- Ordered to be Printed

• Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1922
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Beyond Integration

• Author(s): J. Michael Butler

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-04-12
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• Publisher: UNC Press Books

In 1975, Florida's Escambia County and the city of Pensacola experienced a pernicious chain of events. A sheriff's deputy killed a young black man at point-blank range. Months of protests against police brutality followed, culminating in the arrest and conviction of the Reverend H. K. Matthews, the leading civil rights organizer in the county. Viewing the events of Escambia County within the context of the broader civil rights movement, J. Michael Butler demonstrates that while activism of the previous decade destroyed most visible and dramatic signs of racial segregation, institutionalized forms of cultural racism still persisted. In Florida, white leaders insisted that because blacks obtai...