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Example Topics

Webpage last updated: August 21, 2024

2024–25 Example Florida Topics

  • Fort Mose: Freedom and Responsibility
  • Alexander McGillivray: Statesman for the Creek Indians
  • The Seminole Wars, 1818–58: Fighting for Their Land
  • Commercial Fishing Net Ban: Economics, Ecology, and Responsibility
  • Black Seminoles: Struggle for Freedom
  • Florida and the Civil War: "States’ Rights" vs National Responsibilities
  • Chloe Merrick Reed: Public Education for all Floridians
  • Josiah T. Walls—Soldier, Congressman, Lawyer, Mayor, and Newspaper Publisher: A Life of Responsibility
  • Florida Teachers’ Strike of 1968
  • Thomas D. Tucker: Higher Education for African Americans
  • James Weldon Johnson: Educator, Writer, Composer, and Leader in the NAACP
  • Florida and the Equal Rights Amendment
  • Afro-American Insurance Company: The Right to Financial Security
  • Mary McLeod Bethune: A Life Devoted to Education
  • Clara Frye: Building a Hospital for All People
  • May Mann Jennings and Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Working for Women’s Suffrage
  • Clara White Mission: Responsibility for the Poor
  • Florida and Election 2000: A Responsibility to the Voters
  • D. (Samuel Decatur) McGill: A Fair Trial for the “Pompano Boys”
  • Harry T. Moore: Establishing the NAACP in Florida
  • Vernon McDaniel: The Fight for Equal Pay
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Everglades National Park: A Responsibility to the Environment
  • Virgil D. Hawkins: Desegregating Florida’s Law School
  • Seminole Voting Rights: Joining Florida’s Citizenry
  • Groveland (Little Scottsboro) Trial: Right to a Fair Trial
  • Spanish Missions and Their Role in Evangelizing Native Floridians
  • Tallahassee Bus Boycott of 1956
  • Betty Mae Jumper: A Life in Service to the Seminole People
  • Gideon v. Wainright: The Right to an Attorney
  • St. Augustine Civil Rights Economic Boycott
  • Sister Mary Thomasine Wins the Right to Teach Black Students
  • Andrew Jackson as Florida’s Governor: Establishing Rights and Responsibilities
  • The Situado: Supporting Spain’s Colonists
  • Who Owns the Past? Protecting Florida’s Cultural Resources
  • Halting the Bulldozers: Community Efforts to Save the de Soto Archaeological Site
  • Marjorie Harris Carr and the Cross-Florida Barge Canal: A Responsibility to Save a River
  • Jacksonville's Streetcar Boycott of 1905
  • Eroding Rights: Free Black Floridians in the Territorial Period
  • Abolitionism and Emancipation in Antebellum Florida
  • The Adams–Onís Treaty: Citizenship, Land Grants, and the US Acquisition of Florida
  • Seeking Sovereignty: Federal Recognition of the Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes of Florida

Although you can select a topic dealing with any time or place in history, excellent subjects often are found by investigating local or statewide history. The availability of firsthand informants, historic sites, and documents and records provides many research options, although your search for information about any topic should extend far and wide. Be sure to look at the Florida Research Directory on the FHD website for repositories in Florida. The State Library and Archives of Florida has many online resources in their collections that relate to Florida topics which can be accessed by clicking on the links below.