TAMEKA BRADLEY HOBBS, PH.D., is the library regional manager of Broward County Library’s African American Research Library and Cultural Center, located in Fort Lauderdale. She has also worked as a researcher, writer, consultant, and director for a number of public and oral history projects. Her book, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida, was published by University Press of Florida and honored with a bronze Florida Book Award for Florida Nonfiction in 2015, and a Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society in 2016.
