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Stetson Kennedy s infiltration and exposure of the KKK.

Many a book has been written about Key West, but there has never been anything like Stetson Kennedy s Grits & Grunts, a portrait of the Key West that was. Neither a history (though you will learn a lot about Key West s unique past) nor a guidebook (though you will learn more about Key West than any guides offer), Grits & Grunts is a treasure trove gleaned from the rich multiculture that came to full-flower on The Rock during the first half of the twentieth century, when Key West was Key West.

You ll find an abundant sampling of the inimitable art of Mario Sanchez,...

Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls -the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming.- The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work of permanent value for scholars and of exceptional appeal for general readers.

The three collaborating authors present south Florida folklife from the 1930s to the present in four parts: the Everglades and Gulf Coast, the Miami megalopolis, the Keys, and the seasonal residents and tourists.

Together, these create a mosaic of contrasts. South Florida embraces extravagant wealth and heartbreaking poverty, constant evolution and solid tradition, tropical peace and...