Author
Dyckman, Martin A.
Title
Floridian of his century : the courage of Governor LeRoy Collins / by Martin A. Dyckman ; foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault.
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006.
Format
Book
Biography, Autobiography
Description
xii, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Series
Florida history and culture series
Gen. note
"Published in cooperation with USF Libraries’ Florida Studies Center"--T.p. verso.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-318) and index.
Abstract
Six years after his election as a segregationist, Florida governor LeRoy Collins denounced racial discrimination as contrary to "moral, simple justice." In 1991, the Florida House of Representatives eulogized Collins as the "Floridian of the Twentieth Century," and today Collins is remembered as one of Florida’s outstanding governors. As champion against rural misrule in 1954 and as the voice of racial moderation in 1956, Collins won the two most important gubernatorial elections in Florida history. In Floridian of His Century, a political portrait of this controversial Southern governor, Martin Dyckman argues that Collins’s courageous moral leadership spared Florida the humiliation that befell other states under less enlightened leaders. ..Cover.
ISBN
0813029694
9780813029696
Per.Sub.
Collins, LeRoy.
Subject
Governors -- Florida -- Biography.
Florida -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Florida -- Race relations.
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