Director J. Edgar Hoover received this report, which detailed the racial climate in North Florida...
MLK was an orator, Reverend, and iconic Civil Rights activist.
Historic District founded by freed people in 1866.
First Public school for Black students in the city.
Lincolnville Neighborhood is listed as a Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places...
St. Augustine radio station WFOY reported in their morning show that Black leaders in St. Augustine are arming themselves in the battle for equal rights. While the s...
Leader of the fort and town of Mose.
Fifty more enslaved African people were purchased to take the place of paid and enslaved Indigenous workers at the Castillo de San Marcos...
Ownership of Fort Marion transferred to the National Park Service.
Site of the city's founding, now a religious pilgrimage site.
Polyglot, Interpreter, Freedom-seeker.
Historic Black cemeteries dating back to the 1800s.
Supreme Court allows segregation laws, coining the infamous 'separate but equal' myth...
In a televised speech that is now infamous, President John F. Kennedy expressed that America was being faced with "a moral issue ... as old as the scriptures and as...
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Ray Charles begins his studies at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
The Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation is issued by President Lincoln. In order to rebuild the United States, Lincoln offered to forgive Confederates who swore...
Trailblazing physician, public servant.
Christopher Columbus sets sail for "the New World," beginning the imperial era of Spain. This conquest was ordered by Isabella I, Queen of Castile. Columbus came ash...
Florida makes it illegal for White teachers to teach at Black schools and vice versa.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a civil rights organization that was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and other Alabama activists. This was publi...
Three nuns from the Order of St. Joseph are arrested for teaching Black students.
150 students from Richard J. Murray High School held a peaceful protest against segregation at the Hotel Ponce de Leon, now Flagler College. Police were called, and...
