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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.
Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum: Tallahassee: Florida: 1976 [152] Spady Cultural Heritage Museum: Delray Beach: Florida: 2001 [153] Spelman College Museum of Fine Art: Atlanta: Georgia: 1996 [154] Springfield and Central Illinois African-American History Museum: Springfield: Illinois: 2012 [155] Stiles African ...
Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old black man, was fatally shot on November 20, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, by a New York City Police Department officer. Two police officers, patrolling stairwells in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)'s Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, entered a pitch-dark, unlit stairwell.
Plans to bring Florida Black History museum to Palm Beach County. Just two weeks after the school board approved its budget on Sept. 6, the statewide task force on a Florida Museum of Black ...
A woman who police say helped vandalize the homes of the Brooklyn Museum's leaders with red paint during a wave of pro-Palestinian protests has been arrested on hate crimes charges. Taylor Pelton ...
Members of the Florida Museum of Black History Task Force hear a presentation from Palm Beach County officials aiming to build a statewide Black history museum at historic Roosevelt High School's ...
First Jewish American male (circuit court): Harry N. Sandler in 1933 [14] First African American male (municipal court): Lawson E. Thomas (1923) in 1950 [15] [16] First Cuban American male: Carlos Benito Fernandez in 1961 [17] [18] First African American male (Florida Supreme Court): Joseph W. Hatchett (1959) in 1975 [19] [20] [21]
Joy Chatel (June 28, 1947 – January 8, 2014), also known as Mama Joy, was a cosmetologist, community organizer and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. [1] She fought battles against the Bloomberg administration and millionaire developers to keep the history of anti-slavery organizing from being erased from the Fulton Mall area.