Episode 115: The KKK in Florida

The Gas and Oil Party (GOP), wants Floridians to believe that it's possible to both promote drilling in the Gulf of Mexico AND protect Florida beaches from the inevitability of oil spills which is, of course, ridiculous.This week's guest is Jamin Wells a professor and researcher at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Wells is helping lead a project analyzing the deep involvement of one of Pensacola's most prominent historic citizens, T.T. Wentworth, in the Ku Klux Klan. Craig Pittman wrote about the subject in the summer of 2021 for Flamingo Magazine."Welcome to Florida," as always, is presented by Visit Sarasota and if you love seafood, there's no better place in the state to find it than Sarasota, particularly its seafood markets which bring in fresh Gulf seafood daily. Across Sarasota County you'll find fresh catch seafood to take home and prepare yourself at these exceptional seafood markets.Windstormproducts.com is a Florida-owned small business that has turned itself into the world's largest online retailer of hurricane hardware. From bolts and screws and wingnuts to the drill bits required to anchor them into concrete, sidewalks, wood, masonry or stucco, Windstormproducts.com has the professional tools you need to secure your home or business from hurricane wind damage AND the expertise to make sure you have the right product for your job.Opening September 3, 2022, at the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in downtown St. Petersburg is "Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West." This exhibition, the first of its kind, explores the path of Black history in the West with a timeline of original pictorial quilts. The timeline begins in 1528, which marks the arrival of Africans in the American West and continues through the Civil Rights Movement. Dispelling the myth that Black people in the old West were mostly cowboys, "Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West," shows rich diversity in their occupations and achievements in society, religion, education, and the arts.