Maxine D. Jones
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Contact Information
Professor Maxine Jones received her B.A. (1975), M.A. (1977), and Ph.D. (1982) from Florida State University, where she joined the faculty in 1982. She is the co-author of two books, African-Americans in Florida, with Kevin M. McCarthy (Pineapple, 1993), and Talladega College: The First Century, with Joe M. Richardson (Alabama, 1990). African-Americans in Florida received the Charlton W. Tebeau Book Prize from the Florida Historical Society in 1994. Professor Jones was the principal author of a report on "The Rosewood Incident" for the Florida Legislature in 1993.
Research Interests
Books
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Talledega College: The First Century
In 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared separate education inherently unequal, Talladega College was a notable black liberal arts school thriving in rural east Alabama.
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African Americans in Florida
Brief essays profile over 50 African Americans during four centuries of Florida history.
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Education for Liberation: The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement
Education for Liberation completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War II era.