Florida's Black History

Stories, facts and events that are specific to Florida's Black History. From slavery under the Spanish, British and United States governments, the American Civil War, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement to current events.

Black History (Specific to Florida)

* A. Phillip Randolph - general organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Civil Rights Movement leader

* Ax Handle Saturday (Jacksonville Riot of 1960)

* Citizens’ Councils Battle against Equality

* Civil Rights Struggles in Daytona Beach

* Decimated and Lost Cemeteries in Flagler County

* Eartha M.M. White - Teacher, philanthropic and political activist

* Flagler County’s Once Numerous Plantations

* Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame

* Florida Lynched More Black People Per Capita Than Any Other State, According to Report

* George Washington Carver High School - Flagler County, FL

* Groveland Four

* Hitler Is Here: Lynching in Florida during the Era of World War II

* Independent Party of Florida - (organized in 1884)

* Jacksonville Race Riot - (1964)

* Jacksonville Streetcar Boycott - (1905)

* James Weldon Johnson - writer and Civil Rights activist

* Josiah Thomas Walls - one of the first African Americans in the United States Congress elected during the Reconstruction Era, and the first black person to be elected to Congress from Florida.

* Mary McLeod Bethune's early 1900s Activism (a Precursor to the Civil Rights Movement)

* Mary McLeod Bethune’s Flagler County Correspondence

* Matthew M. Levy - Florida’s first Black newspaper editor

* Miami Riots of 1980

* Ocoee Massacre (November 2, 1920)

* Opportunities and Tragedies of Prohibition

* Perry Race Riot (December 14-15, 1922)

* Perseverance: Episodes of Black History from the Rural South

* Pork Chop Gang - "Florida's version of McCarthyism"

* The Resilient Florida Highwaymen Painters

* Rosewood Massacre - Levy County, Florida - (1923)

* St. Augustine's Fort Mose and the ongoing efforts to resurrect its buried past

* St. Augustine Motel manager pours acid in the water when Integrationists swam in his pool - (1964)

* Struggles to Desegregate Public Schools

* Tallahassee Bus Boycott - (1956)

* Tallahassee Ten - Freedom Riders - (1961)

* The 100th Anniversary of the Ocoee, Florida Election Day Massacre

* The Ku Klux Klan in Flagler County

* The legacy of Central Florida’s black press

* What happened to the statue of Edmund Kirby Smith?

* White Southern Newspapers Prior to 1970