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Stroll down Sistrunk Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, and you’ll catch glimpses of Black history embedded in the community. Outside the once-thriving Cone Plaza, a portrait of the late Dr. James ...
Another Fort Lauderdale man, 38-year-old Frank Lee Smith, who was intellectually disabled, was convicted of her murder. In 1960, at the age of 13, Smith killed 14-year-old John Wesley Spahn, but was released from custody in the mid-1960s, only to be later charged with the shooting death of 38-year-old Herbert DeWitt, who was killed during a ...
Woodlawn Cemetery (Fort Lauderdale) Clay County. Orange Park ... Carnegie Library at FAMU, Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum.
It was founded in 1938 by two African-American physicians, Von D. Mizell and James Sistrunk; none of the existing hospitals in Fort Lauderdale would accept African-American patients. In 1937, a young black man named John McBride was shot in the stomach by a car full of white men rumored to be members of the Ku Klux Klan.
A Miami federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Fort Lauderdale police officers who unleashed tear gas and rubber bullets at Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 can’t be held liable in a ...
This is a list of Black American newspapers that have been published in Florida. It includes both current and historical newspapers. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The earliest known Black American journalists in Florida were John T. Shuften and John Wallace , who both worked for newspapers that were otherwise white.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One person was killed and two others were hospitalized Thursday afternoon when a section of crane fell from a building in downtown Fort Lauderdale, officials said.
Von Delany Mizell (1910–1973) was the second black physician in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and since at that time Fort Lauderdale's hospitals would not accept "colored" patients, he helped establish Provident Hospital for black residents.