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This list of African American Historic Places in Florida is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers.
The A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center is a museum in Gainesville, Florida. The museum preserves the legacy of Allen Quin Jones (1893–1994), [ 3 ] a local educator who dedicated his life to educating African-Americans.
The black Seminole culture that took shape after 1800 was a dynamic mixture of African, Native American, Spanish, and slave traditions. Adopting certain practices of the Native Americans, maroons wore Seminole clothing and ate the same foodstuffs prepared the same way: they gathered the roots of a native plant called coontie, grinding, soaking, and straining them to make a starchy flour ...
The Historic Haile Homestead, also known as Haile Plantation House or Kanapaha, is a historic site and museum in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is located at 8500 SW Archer Rd. SR 24 . On May 2, 1986, the plantation house was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .The Homestead is unique in the Nation for its "Talking ...
Wilson Bowers, an artist and member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, works on his painting at the Florida Historic Capitol Museum's Indigenous Artist Series on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.
Kersey, Jr., Harry A. "The Florida Seminole Land Claims Case, 1950-1990." Florida Historical Quarterly 72, no. 1 (1993): 35-55. Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War, 1835–1842. Gainesville: Library Press@UF, Reissued 2017. First published 1967 by University of Florida Press (Gainesville). Page references are to the 2017 edition.
Between 1866-1872, roughly 20,000 Black and White Americans were killed for trying to educate Black people, historian Shawn Leigh Alexander said in the documentary “Tell Them We Are Rising: The ...
Panama Canal Museum Florida, Seminole, closed in 2012, collections transferred to the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida in Gainesville [50] Skatelab, Atlantic Beach, closed in 2009, original store and museum in Simi Valley, California still open; Teddy Bear Museum of Naples, Naples, closed in 2005