Alcee Hastings, then attorney for the local NAACP, pauses during a demonstration against alleged police brutality at Fort Lauderdale Police Headquarters, 1966. Hastings was the first black judge appointed to Florida by President Carter in 1979; he was impeached and removed from office in 1989. In 1992 he became the first African-American elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction. Gene Hyde Collection.

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