Description: African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida provides an impactful overview of African American Studies; documents the research of Black faculty at UF; examines how African American Studies encourages community engagement and service; contains testimonies from community elders; and includes reflections by and about prominent UF alumni such as Judge Stephan Mickle and Dr. David Horne.
Brief description: Paul Ortiz is professor of history at the University of Florida, director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and affiliate faculty in African American Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies. He is the author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States and Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida. He is also coeditor of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South and People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn's Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century.