Tameka Hobbs
Tameka Hobbs | |
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| Born | Tameka Bradley Hobbs Live Oak, Florida |
| Education | Florida State University Phd. |
| Spouse | William Ashanti Hobbs III |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Website | |
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Tameka Bradley Hobbs is a historian, author, and professor. She is also a lecturer and an civil rights activist. She is a professor of history at Florida Memorial University.[1] Hobbs is also considered to be a nationally recognized expert on African American issues. She documented oral histories of African Americans in Florida.[2]
Education[edit]
Hobbs did her undergraduate studies at Florida A&M. She graduated from Florida State University with a doctoral degree in United States History, and Historical Administration and Public History.[3]
Career[edit]
Hobbs taught history and coordinated the African American studies progam at Valdosta State University.[4] She has also taught at Nova Southeastern University.[5] She also served as project director for the John G. Riley House Museum. She is now a professor at Florida Memorial University and an author.[5]
Hobbs has given public lectures on racism.[6] She also discussed her research on black lynchings to the Black Lives Matter movement and its focus on the treatment of blacks by police.[7]
Hobbs has been quoted as a nationally recognized expert on African American issues by CBS News and in the New York Times Magazine. She has been consulted and or quoted by news outlets to give comment on African American issues.[8] [9] She is also often consulted in the South Florida Times (African American Newspaper).[10]
Activist[edit]
Hobbs was President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's South Florida Chapter. In 2017 Hobbs campaigned to remove the names of confederates from street signs in Hollywood Florida.[11] The city of Hollywood Florida eventually voted to rename the streets as a result of the protests.[12]
Black lives matter[edit]
She has protested alongside members of the Black Lives Matter movement and she has characterized the movement as empowering for black people and threatening to white people.[13]
Research[edit]
Hobbs studied all of the lynchings from 1882-1951 in the U.S. She found that more than two-thirds of the lynchings took place in the South, and the majority (73%) of the victims were black. She also learned through her research that of the 4,732 lynchings, Florida had the most.[4] She asserted that Florida's population was low from 1882-1930, and yet it had the highest amount of black lynchings. The next state with second most lynchings was Mississippi.[14] She discovered that blacks had the best chance of being lynched if they lived in Florida.[15]
Her 2015 book about lynchings in Florida during the World War II era, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida, was reviewed in the Journal of Southern History.[16] It was also reviewed in the Journal of American History.[17] The book recounts the stories of four African American men Arthur C. Williams, Cellos Harrison, Willie James Howard, and Jesse James Payne, who were lynched in the Florida Panhandle between 1941-1945.[18]
Her book To Collect, Protect, and Serve: Behind the Scenes at the Library of Virginia is part of the Library of Virginia's educational program for elementary school students.[19]
Awards[edit]
- 2015 Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal in the non-fiction category[20][21]
- 2016 Florida Historical Society’s Harry and Harriette Moore prize[22]
Books[edit]
- To Collect, Protect, and Serve: Behind the Scenes at the Library of Virginia (2011) Richmond: Library of Virginia ISBN 978-0-8849-0209-6 Search this book on
. - Junebug and the Gumbo Garden (2013) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida (2015) University Press of Florida ISBN 978-0813062396 Search this book on .
- Soar (2016) with Jason Austin CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 978-1522974161 Search this book on .
Publications[edit]
- Landmarks & Legacies: A Guide to Tallahassee's African American Heritage, 1865-1970, by Will Guzmán and Tameka B. Hobbs, John G. Riley Center/Museum for African American History & Culture, 2000[23][24]
Personal[edit]
Hobbs was born in Live Oak, Florida, she lives in Pembroke Pines Florida with her husband William Ashanti Hobbs III, also an author, and their two sons.
References[edit]
- ↑ University, Nova Southeastern. "Florida lynchings subject of Diversity Dialogue". NSU.
- ↑ "John G. Riley House & Museum [WorldCat Identities]".
- ↑ "tameka-bradley-hobbs". www.fmuniv.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Baccus, Chevon (16 March 2019). "Professor Details Disturbing Part of Black History". Lake Wales News. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Dr. Tameka Bradley-Hobbs". NSU.
- ↑ "Race in Retrospect Lecture with Dr. Tameka Hobbs". eventbrite. Eventbrite. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ Coulter, James. "Historical Lecture At Lake Wales Museum About Racial Lynching Explains Why "Black Lives Matter"". Daily Ridge. dailyridge. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ "Documentary reopens old wounds from Jim Crow-era killing". CBS Interactive Inc. Associated press. 1 January 2015.
- ↑ Holmes, Anna (14 May 2015). "The Underground art of the Insult". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ↑ Beatty, Robert (13 June 2013). "JUNETEENTH RECOGNITION, OBSERVANCES GROWING". South Florida Times. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ↑ Robbins, Lynare. "A Tale of Two Eras: Hollywood Votes to Rename Confederate Streets". southfloridagaynews. South Florida Gay News. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ Bryan, Susannah (15 November 2017). "It's official: Hollywood to rename Confederate streets". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ Robinson, Andrea (30 August 2017). "Activists, Confederates to face off in Broward". Miami Times Online. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ Gama, Yuri. "The Rise and Fall of an African American Inner City: The Case of Parramore, Orlando". tropicsofmeta. Tropics of Meta. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ Cosson, Derek (28 July 2017). "A CENTURY AGO, A LYNCHING IN DOWNTOWN PENSACOLA". The Pulse. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ Crabtree, Mari N. (November 3, 2016). "Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida by Tameka Bradley Hobbs (review)". Journal of Southern History. 82 (4): 950–951. doi:10.1353/soh.2016.0286 – via Project MUSE.
Hobbs also provides valuable insights into the devastating impact of lynching on African American families and communities over the past seventy-five years.
- ↑ Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (December 1, 2016). "Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida". Journal of American History. 103 (3): 823–824. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw453 – via academic.oup.com.
But Tameka Bradley Hobbs makes a convincing argument that these lynchings reveal important insights into the evolution of white supremacy in twentieth-century America.
- ↑ "Tameka Bradley Hobbs, "Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida" (UP of Florida, 2015)". New Books Network. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- ↑ "Library of Virginia Students and Educators". www.lva.virginia.gov.
- ↑ Web Development, Florida State University (February 1, 2011). "The Florida Book Awards". Florida Book Award in early March of each year.
- ↑ Fields, Dorothy Jenkins (19 April 2017). "Black African-American writers group now meets throughout South Florida". Miami Herald. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ "FSU alumna Tameka Bradley Hobbs awarded the Florida Historical Society's Harry and Harriette Moore prize". FSU. Florida State University. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ↑ "Landmarks & legacies: a guide to Tallahassee's African American heritage, 1865-1970". July 12, 2000 – via Open WorldCat.
- ↑ Guzmán, Will; Hobbs, Tameka B. (July 12, 2000). "Landmarks & Legacies: A Guide to Tallahassee's African American Heritage, 1865-1970". John G. Riley Center/Museum for African American History & Culture – via Google Books.
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