Dr. J. Michael Butler
@dr_mbutler
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Kenan Distinguished Professor of History @FlaglerCollege - Civil Rights, Southern, & Cultural History. Natural Heel. Tweets don’t represent my employer!
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Joined April 2009
One of my career highlights: Talking the Civil Rights Movement with @BillyCorben & @LeBatardShow
#BecauseMiami: Whitewashing | J. Michael Butler Joins the Show | The Dan... https://t.co/fTUm6YLz23 via @YouTube
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Just another day in our descent into totalitarianism: The president threatens a state for purely political purposes unless it releases a convicted felon. But tell me again how much 'election security' matters..... https://t.co/7cPXkt53nD
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President threatened ‘harsh measures’ if Tina Peters – sentenced to nine years – isn’t released from prison
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REST IN PEACE🙏 Pensacola civil rights leader Rev. H.K. Matthews has passed away at the age of 97. Matthews -- who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- led several civil rights movements in Pensacola in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more: https://t.co/rTgVrOSMAl
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It's with great sadness that I share news that a civil rights icon, and a person I got to know well over the years as a central figure in my historical research, has passed on. Godspeed, Rev. Matthews. You made this world a better place than the one you inherited.
REST IN PEACE🙏 Pensacola civil rights leader Rev. H.K. Matthews has passed away at the age of 97. Matthews -- who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- led several civil rights movements in Pensacola in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more: https://t.co/rTgVrOSMAl
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Because what nations personify peace quite like....(checks notes)....those of Pol Pot and the Hutu death squads?
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Make Scientific Racism Great Again: RFK Jr.'s Stunning Claim About Black People And Vaccines Sparks Concern From Medical Experts - HuffPost
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Experts weigh in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial take and what they want everyone to know.
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How the Trump shooting supercharged beliefs in a divine right of MAGA - The Washington Post
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Donald Trump and many of his followers have described the rally as a mass spiritual awakening, promoting beliefs that he enacts God’s will
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It was an HONOR to give the 1st lecture for the Doerr Center for Civic Engagement last week @HastingsCollege ! It was titled “The Long Lost Cause: St. Augustine’s Confederate Monument and the Consequences of Historical Dishonesty,” & the response was tremendous! @FlaglerCollege
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“And nothing else”
Leavitt: As a mother of a child, I want an education system that helps my child read, write and teaches him math and nothing else in the classroom.
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Excited about my presentation tonight @HastingsCollege! Join me at 6:30pm in the Daugherty Center (Lower Level) for "The Long Lost Cause: St. Augustine's Confederate Monument and the Consequences of Historical Dishonesty." #BlackHistoryMonth2025
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History book of the day Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida 1960-1980 #ad @UNC_Press @dr_mbutler #BookOfTheDay #historybookoftheday #BlackHistoryMonth
https://t.co/f9mSSznnXQ
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In 1975, Florida’s Escambia County and the city of Pensacola experienced a pernicious chain of events. A sheriff’s deputy killed a young black man at point-blank range. Months of protests against...
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It’s official. We’ve finally ended racism in America.
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The announcement comes the same day a White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump would be attending the game.
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He suggests DEI is somehow responsible and cites “psychological equality” as his reasoning. He’s saying minorities are less intelligent. That is the very definition of “white supremacy.”
Reporter: Are you saying this crash was caused as a result of diversity hiring Trump: It could have been
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This is exactly what a dictator would say.
REPORTER: I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't
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Glad to see the politically-motivated “war on Woke” in Florida education is really benefiting students! Nice work, @CommMannyDiazJr
Politics gets all the attention but education is *the* Florida story of the DeSantis era (I’d expect his supporters and critics would agree on that, though for vastly different reasons).
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Like a camp? Where large numbers of people are concentrated?
BREAKING: Donald Trump says he's directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the U.S. illegally.
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The ACRE grant has been transformative for me. My work with teachers will impact more than any journal article I write. It is intended to be a multi year project and now I just don’t know.
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