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Greyscale photo of three women and two men standing behind a campsite and two cars in the 1920s.

AARP Florida, WUSF Public Media, and USF Libraries provide support for Florida Conversions.

Photo provided by the Tampa Bay History Center

Bootleggers flood in with illegal booze, flappers dance to jazz, and workers build suburban bungalows while Florida’s Jim Crow system is violently enforced and a charismatic Christian religious revival sweeps the state — It’s the 1920s in Florida.

Look back at the happenings that catapulted Florida into the modern era by joining the Tampa Bay History Center’s Brad Massey and Rodney Kite-Powell for Florida Conversations: Florida in the 1920s on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m.

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