Twelve years after the original settlment was destroyed, Fort Mose is rebuilt near the site of the original community. Many African-descended residents are ordered t...
Fort Mose Historic State Park is added to the National Register of Historic Places...
Built by St. Johns County, Excelsior was the first public high school for Black students...
Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose was the first legally sanctioned free Black community in the United States. It became the northernmost point of Defense for the S...
Pedro Menendez founds San Augustin as the capital of La Florida. His party is said to have included free and enslaved Africans...
British forces capture Havana, a major port of the Spanish Empire that was considered far more important than St. Augustine...
Leader of the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement.
Anthropologist, author, preserver of memories.
An account of Fort Mose is published in The Journal of Negro History, written by Zora Neale Hurston.
The baseball star spoke at St. Paul AME Church, urging the audience to register to vote...
Director J. Edgar Hoover received this report, which detailed the racial climate in North Florida...
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.
