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Winners and their families at the NAACP 2024 Black History Month essay competition, Oak Ridge. Aary’s White receiving his Supporter Award from Annette Flynn, Oak Ridge, June 2024.
On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
When Florida’s State Board of Education adopted new standards for teaching African American history earlier this month, a deluge of criticism quickly followed. It was largely directed at two ...
Black voters and black politicians vanished under threats from reactionary whites. [9] Per capita lynching was highest in Florida than any other state from 1900 to 1930. Offenders were often known but no legal proceedings ensued. A tipping point was reached in 1951, with the Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore. FBI help was sought.
List of African American historic places in Florida 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. [1]
"Tallahassee Civil Rights Oral History Collection (finding aid)" (1957, 1973, 1978). Prepared for the Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Retrieved June 25, 2024. White, Robert M. (1964). The Tallahassee Sit-ins and CORE, a Nonviolent Revolutionary Submovement (Ph.D. thesis). Florida State ...
Nearly 300 Black churches in Florida are offering Black history lessons in response to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort to limit how race and other subjects are taught in schools.
Only 11 school districts in Florida have plans in place to teach the required Black history courses that Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state provides. Florida’s struggle to teach Black history has ...