To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments There have been many people who helped in various degrees toward the successful completion of this book. I would like to thank the staff at the Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as Special Collections at University of North Florida, and the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida. I was also greatly assisted by the staff at the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, the Jacksonville Historical Society, Jacksonville Public Library, the State of Florida Archives, the Brevard Community College/University of Central Florida Joint-Use-Library, as well as the Interlibrary Loan department at the University of Central Florida Library. I have to make specific mention of the staff at these locations who went above and beyond to not only warmly greet me at each visit but who also searched far and wide for many documents and photos. For their continued professionalism and kindness, I would like to extend my gratitude to Boyd Murphree, David Nelson, James Cusick, Emily Lisska, Eileen Brady, Lauren Swain Mosley, Joanie Reynolds, and Andrew Todd. I would like to make special notice of current and former students who helped locate research materials, found specific individuals in the U.S. Census Manuscripts, and created images in Adobe Photoshop for xiv · Acknowledgments me. A portion of my royalties is probably owed to Heather Bollinger for the grunt work she performed without any complaint. Many thanks to Anne Ladyem McDivitt for her work on the images in this book. Kathy Parry entertained me with numerous conversations about race, space, and landscape; I learned so much from working with her. I would like to thank the Journal of Urban History (SAGE/Society) for permission to republish part of an article in chapter 6 and the Florida Historical Quarterly for allowing me to republish part of an article in my conclusion. I would also like to thank my colleagues at the University of Central Florida. Amelia Lyons for turning me on to Jürgen Habermas and The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Connie Lester who made her office a safe refuge for me to talk about anything and everything I found on Jacksonville. My colleague and friend in the Department of Film, Lisa Mills, a Jacksonville native, who wanted to hear every detail about this research and who was always encouraged and excited by it. And to my former colleague, Lupe Garcia, who shared books and articles with me on the production of space in the city. And of course my old and new colleague Daniel S. Murphree who first challenged me in graduate school to not just say something but to say something transcendent about the history of Florida. There have been many people over the years who provided important guidance and insight, and who, in some cases, mentored me and this project . W. Fitzhugh Brundage, David R. Roediger, Eric Arnesen, Raymond A. Mohl, and David R. Goldfield have given me encouragement over the years. Julian C. Chambliss and Alan Bliss deserve thanks because of our numerous conversations about my research and urban history. I must give special thanks to Paul Ortiz and Louis Kyriakoudes for reading the manuscript and providing the necessary comments that improved the quality of the revisions. I hope this work one day stands alongside their books, which provided the original inspiration for my research. Finally, I must shower much gratitude on Melanie Shell-Weiss who not only first pointed me to the literature on the production of space but always answered her phone or replied in e-mail when I needed encouragement and felt that the material was beyond my ability as a scholar. I would also like to thank the fine staff at the University Press of Florida. This is my third book with them, and they have always been professional and never missed a deadline or failed to reply to any of my inquiries. Acknowledgments · xv I want to personally thank Meredith Morris-Babb who believed in the project and shepherded the manuscript through its final channels. I would like to thank my family, especially my mother who immediately shows my books off to all her friends moments after she receives her copy. My wife and also all of our four-legged children have made my life away from work exceptional during the last thirteen years. Because of...