Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Hobbs, Tameka Bradley
Author's Email Address	thobbs85@comcast.net
URN	etd-07112004-234544
Title	"Hitler is Here": Lynching in Florida During the Era of World War II
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	History, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Maxine D. Jones Committee Chair Darryl Carr Committee Member James P. Jones Committee Member Joe M. Richardson Committee Member Matt D. Childs Committee Member
Keywords	Willie James Howard A.C. Williams Jesse James Payne African Americans in Florida Lynching Cellos Harrison
Date of Defense	2004-06-24
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This historical study will examine four lynchings that took place in Florida during the 1940s. The investigations include the lynching of A. C. Williams in Gadsden County in 1941; Cellos Harrison in Jackson County in 1943; Willie James Howard in Suwannee County in 1944; and Jesse James Payne in Madison County in 1945. In addition to describing the circumstances surrounding each incident, this study also discusses the reaction of local law enforcement, Florida state public officials, the federal government, and the press. To tell these stories, the study relied on records from local and state governments, investigative records of the U. S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and, oral history from family members and residents of the communities in which these lynchings occurred. The study gives these incidents further exploration, in attempting to fit them into the chronology of the lynching phenomenon in the United States by extracting similarities as well as changes in the practice of lynching itself. These lynchings also indicate an increasingly negative reaction but segments of the American public against such acts of violence. This was due in part to U. S. participation in World War II and the government’s increasing concern about the nation’s international reputation.
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