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St. johns, baker, flagler county

Developing Lincolnville and West Augustine | St. Augustine Historical Society The Day of Jubilee: Emancipation in St. Augustine, FL | St. Augustine Historical Society Lost Voices from America's Oldest Parish Archive, 1594-1821 | La Florida Civil Rights Library of St Augustine Photo - BLACK DRIVER WHITE PASSENGERS & ST. AUGUSTINE GATES TINTYPE | Liveauctioneers.com 1846 Letter from a New England Minister about his two years preaching in St. Augustine, Florida to Black slaves and Mexican American War soldiers | Liveauctioneers.com (CIVIL RIGHTS.) St. Augustine, Florida: 400 Years of Bigotry and Hate, Supported and Maintained by Northern Tourist Dollars. Civil Rights | Swann Auction Galleries Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mosé, better known as Fort Mose. | Florida Museum Florida's Underground Railroad: Fort Mose | Florida Memory Forts of St. Augustine | wpa UF Flagler County [1939] | fwp uf Flagler Beach and Flagler County [1936?] | fwp uf St. Augustine Interviews 1936 | wpa uf The Okefenokee Swamp prepared for use in public schools 1939 | wpa uf

Alachua, dixie, madison County

Freedman's contracts, Alachua County. 1866-1868 | UF List of Alachua County African American Oral History Project MP3 interviews on DVD as of 2014-09-03 | UF Alachua County 1937 | WPA UF Report on historical sites in Alachua County, Florida, created by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) (43 pages) | UF Turpentine camp at Cross City 1939 | wpa uf Madison County [1936] | wpa uf Gainesville local guide 1937 | wpa uf History of Dixie County 1936 | wpa uf Alachua County transcribes census & slave schedules | USGW archives MADISON COUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES 1901 MADISON COUNTY NEWSPAPER STORIES ABOUT VARIOUS TRAJEDIES IN 1901 | USGW ARCHIVES

indian river, osceola county

Indian River County 1936 | wpa uf Osceola County [1936] | wpa uf iNDIAN RIVER COUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES

Duval County

Photo - 1880 Boudoir Jacksonville Florida Man & Roxburgh Office Jacksonville Daily Journal Newspaper Archive | Internet Archive Photo - Young couple Jacksonville Republican Newspaper Archive | Internet Archive 1916 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1922 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1919 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1918 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1912 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1921 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1908 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1909 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1917 Polk's Jacksonville city directory | Internet Archive 1907 Polk's Jacksonville city directory| Internet Archive Downtown Jacksonville’s Black History: The People and Places They’ve Shaped | dtjax.com Black History of Jacksonville Images | UNF Biographical sketches : [Jacksonville, Florida, 1936-41] | WPA UF Camp Johnston [1918?] | wpa uf DUVAL COUNTY CENSUS & SLAVE SCHEDULES TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES

Belle Glade

Palm Beach County

Photo of Two Women 1935 by Alan Lomax | Library of Congress Photo of Saloon Keeper 1935 by Alan Lomax | Library of Congress Photo of Singing Class 1941 | Library of Congress Photo Migratory Labor Hospital c1950 | Library of Congress 57 Misc photos of laborers and buildings | DPLA Florida - White and Yellow Pages - Belle Glade - Pahokee - 12/1938 thru 8/1953 | Library of Congress Palm Beach County [1939] | wpa uf photo : Belle Glade, Florida, after the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. 1928 | uf Photo : Hurricane damage around Belle Glade, Florida - 1928 1928 | uf

Eatonville & Orange County

Orange County

Photo Singing Girl 1935 by Alan Lomax,| Library of Congress Photo cildren Singing Games 1935 by Alan Lomax | Library of Congress Photo Rev Haynes Methodist Church 1935 by Alan Lomax | Library of Congress Photo of Rev Haynes 1935 by Alan Lomax| Library of Congress Photo of Rev Haynes 1935 | Library of Congress Photo Woman in Porch Swing 1935 | Library of Congress Photo Man in Rocking Chair 1935 | Library of Congress Photo of Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French 1935 | Library of Congress Photo Man 1935 | Library of Congress Photo -Residence of J. E. Clark, Postmaster, Eatonville, Fla. | DPLA Social Preservation and Moral Capitalism in the Historic Black Township of Eatonville, Florida: A Case Study of 'Reverse Gentrification | UFC Carey Hand Funeral Records for Eatonville residents | UCF 1922-1926 Orlando Register of Births & Deaths | FamilySearch 1926-1929 Orlando Register of Births & Deaths | FamilySearch Interview with Bobbie Hunter, November 2, 1980, Eatonville | UF Orlando [1936] | WPA UF History of Orlando [1937] | wpa uf 19th Century Churches of Orange County, Florida| usgw archives Orlando Residence Directory - A Surnames 1913 | usgw archives Orange County Census transcripts & slave schedules | usgw archives Orange County Voter registrations 1912 - 1930 | UCF 1912 Orlando city directory | UCF Early settlers of Orange County, Florida | UCF History of Orange County, Florida: Narrative and biographical Authors William Fremont Blackman | UCF

Marion county

Marion County

Photo Baptism in the Spring at Paradise Park 1950 by Bruce Mozert | Florida State Archives collection Photo Boy Scout Troop #158 circa 1960's Paradise Park, Florida State Archives collection Photo of Women swimming at Paradise Park 1950, Florida State Archives Free Ebook -Remembering Paradise Park : tourism and segregation at Silver Springs : Vickers, Lu, | Internet Archive Marion County | Wpa UF

Volusia County

Daytona, Ormond, Freemanville, New Smyrna, Oak Hill, Enterpr

Photo PE class at Bethune-Cookman 1943 | Library of Congress 1916 Map of Volusia | University of Virginia Early Daytona’s Forgotten African American Communities–Waycross, Newtown, Midway, and Silver Hill | Volusia History Folklore stories from ex-slaves: interview with Victoria Harris...New Smyrna, Florida, August 17, 1937 | Umbra 1943 Photos of Daytona African American Community | Umbra Florida - White and Yellow Pages - Daytona Beach - 11/1939 thru 12/1947 | Library of Congress Florida - White and Yellow Pages - Daytona Beach - 6/1948 thru 12/1954 | Library of Congress 1948 Bethune Cookman University Yearbook, Daytona Beach, Volusia County | Restored by Bill Price | Facebook Mother Hunt's Orphanage, Daytona | Frontier Florida New Smyrna Daily News Newspaper Archive | Internet Archive Daytona Beach Daily News Newspaper Archive | Internet Archive Daytona Beach | fwp? uf Daytona local guide 1937? | wpa uf Deland [1936] | wpa uf New Smyrna Beach city guide [1936?] } wpa uf search results for the Bethune Cookman texts & publications | UCF

Pinellas, pasco, hernando County

Free EBook - St. Petersburg's historic African American neighborhoods : community, culture, and connection : Wilson, Jon, 1945 | Internet Archive 1918 R. L. Polk and Company's St. Petersburg city directory | Internet Archive 1931 Polk's Clearwater (Florida) City Directory including Dunedin, Largo and Tarpon Springs | Internet Archive St. Petersburg and the Florida dream, 1888-1950 | UF Hernando County | wpa uf History of the Pinellas Peninsula 1936 v1 | wpa uf History of the Pinellas Peninsula 1936 v2 | WPA UF Pasco County [1936] | wpa uf Clearwater 1936 | wpa uf pasco county map january 1928 the weekly challEnger newspAPER ARCHIVES -The Weekly Challenger newspaper has documented the history of St. Petersburg, Florida's African American community since the paper was established by Cleveland Johnson Jr. in 1967. | ucf iNTERVIEW: Mable Sims Oral History Interview - Mable Sims discusses her family's history and describes their homestead, which is still standing. Sims is descended from the founders of Twin Lakes, the first African American community in Hernando County. | usf

Lee, collier, charlotte, desoto, HARDEE, manatee County

1921 Polk's Ft. Myers city directory | Internet Archive 1923 - 1924 Polk's Ft. Myers city directory | Internet Archive Photo -Black neighborhood - Fort Myers, Florida | Florida Memory Lee County Black History Society Lee County Black History Timeline | LCBHS The Rise of Jim Crow in Fort Myers, 1885-1930 Jonathan Harrison | JSTOR Lee County [1936] | fwp uf Collier County 1939 | wpa uf Manatee County Writers Program 1936-1984 | uf DeSoto County 1936 | wpa uf Seeing Fort Myers a comprehensive guidebook to the city and its interesting environs 1936 | wpa uf DESOTO COUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES LEE COUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES manatee county census transcribed | usgw archives

Brevard County

The Negro School in Titusville Florida 1883 - 1957 | NBBD The Script, Vol. 01 No. 02, July 20, 1946 by Elmer Silas (Cocoa, Fla.) | Internet Archive The Script, Vol. 01 No. 01, July 13, 1946 by Elmer Silas (Cocoa, Fla.) | Internet Archive The Script, Vol. 01 No. 03, July 27, 1946 by Elmer Silas (Cocoa, Fla.) | Internet Archive additional volumes of the script | UCF Brevard county commisioners meeting notes 1905-1908 | Brevard county historical commission archives Interview : William Rufus Wright Brothers of Melbourne | Brevard County Historical Commission Archives interview: Wright Brothers family of Melbourne | Brevard County Historical Commission Archives Interview : Lillie Mae Tatum Brothers of Melbourne | Brevard County Historical commission archives Interview: Quiller Bass Price, Melbourne | Brevard County Historical Commission Archives interview: rev. carol williams glanton | melbourne | Brevard County Historical commission archives interview : eddie thomas, brevard county schools | brevard county historical commission archives interview: Jesse buggs, naacp | brevard county historical commission interview: lottie johnson thorpe, malabar | brevard county historical commission archives interview: u.f. gibbs, melbourne | Brevard county historical commission archives interview: midwife estella jackson, melbourne | brevard county historical commission archives interview: leola price harper, melbourne | brevard county historical commission archives interview: chef samuel t. piper, melbourne | brevard county historical commission archives interview: the price family, melbourne | brevard county historical commission archives interview: rev horace greeley mcmillon, melbourne | Brevard county historical commission archives interview: harry lawrence, melbourne | brevard county historical commission archives 1918 brevard county phone directory, including new smyrna | florida historical society research library

Tampa Area

Tampa [1938] | WPA UF Tampa Times and Tampa Tribune excerpts, 1895-1896 | WPA uf Hillsborough County, Florida | fwp uf Folksongs and Folklore of Ybor City [1941] | wpa uf Ybor City Writers' Program 1939 | wpa uf Hillsborough county, personalities 1936 | wpa uf Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection - The Florida Sentinel Bulletin is Florida's largest and most widely read African American newspaper. Founded in 1945, the paper is published twice weekly and distributed door-to-door and on news racks in Hillsborough, Polk, and Pinellas counties and via subscription throughout the United States. | USF

Lake, citrus, sumter, levy County

Photos - Eustis - Ruth Marie Hudson Photograph Collection | Anacostia Community Museum lake county 1936 - 1937 | wpa uf Citrus County 1936-1939 | WPA UF

polk, highlands, & hendry, ST LUCIE County

Life histories Highlands County 1938-39 | WPA UF Hendry County [1936] | wpa up Sebring 1937 | WPA uf History of Polk county 1936 | wpa uf Avon Park, Florida 1936-1938 | wpa uf History of Lakeland [1936] | fwp uf Plant City, biographies 1939 | wpa uf Seeing Lakeland a guide and handbook to the city and its suburbs 1936 | UF ST LUCIE cOUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES

palm beach, okeechobee, martin, broward county

Photo - Hotel in Pahokee, Lake Okeechobee, Florida, living quarters for migratory agricultural workers, February 1941.History of Broward County 1936 | WPA UF Palm Beach guide [1938] | wpa uf Okeechobee County | wpa uf Hollywood guide | wpa uf

Leon, jefferson, wakulla, LIBERTY, gadsden County

The Day Book from R.F. Van Brunt’s store in the Iamonia Community documents the quotidian financial transactions of the store and its customers, many of whom sharecropped on Van Brunt’s plantation. The Day Book shows documentation about sharecropping in the Tallahassee locale. 1911-1915 | DPLA 1865 - 1866 Names of farmhands and credits collected against their debts | DPLA jefferson county | wpa uf History of Wakulla County 1936 | wpa uf Leon County Florida early settlers 1939? | wpa uf gadsden county census transcribed | usgw archives JEFFERSON COUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIPTIONS | USGW ARCHIVES LEON COUNTY CENSUS & SLAVE SCHEDULES TRANSCIBED | USGW ARCHIVES Liberty County CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Apalachicola Black History Trail | City of Apalachicola Free Ebook - Apalachicola before 1861 | Internet Archives Map drawn of Fort Gadsden | Florida Memory

Escambia, liberty, bay, gulf, jackson County

1891-1899 Pensacola Deaths | FamilySearch 1899-1910 Pensacola Deaths | FamilySearch 1909 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Archive 1916 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Aechive 1913 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Archive 1919-1920 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Archive 1921 - 1922 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Archive 1908 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Archive 1910 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Archive 1911 R. L. Polk and Company's Pensacola directory | Internet Archive Escambia County 1936 | WPA UF Liberty County [1936] | fwp uf Gulf County Writers Program 1938 | wpa uf escambia county census transcribed | usgw archives BAY COUNTY - COMMUNITY OF PARKER CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES JACKSON COUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIPTIONS | USGW ARCHIVES

putnam, clay, HAMILTON, BAKER nassau County

Johnson's Crossing an institutional analysis of rural black community | UF History of Putnam County 1936-1939 | WPA UF Palatka | WPA UF Green Cove Springs, Florida, 1816 | fwp uf Fernandina [1939] | fwp uf Middleburg, next oldest town in United States | wpa uf Papers from family of Judge Swann | wpa uf clay county census | usgw archives HAMILTON COUNTY CENSUS & SLAVES SCHEDULES TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES

Multi County

U.S. Telephone Directory Collection | Library of Congress Florida folk lore and custom | wpa uf Florida fact book: rivers and creeks | wpa uf The Negro in Florida cities | wpa uf florida | fwp uf Extent of Florida as reported in numerous writings of early explorers 1930 | fwp fu Negro education in Florida cities 1936 | wpa uf List of military posts established in Florida prior to 1860 | fwp uf St. Johns River 1936 | wpa uf Suwannee River 1936 | wpa uf History of the Old King's Road 1939 | wpa uf Negro churches | wpa uf

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