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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 The standard guide, St. Augustine, east coast of Florida and Nassau 1906 | INTERNET ARCHIVE FREE EBOOK: America's ancient city : Spanish St. Augustine, 1565-1763 | INTERNET ARCHIVE St Augustine 1860 Slave and Free Black City Punishments | rootsweb St Johns County African-American World War I Soldiers with some Biographies| rootsweb baker county census transcribed | usgw Baker county " they way it was" articles 1975 - 1984 | usgw photos - The Richard Twine Collection 1922-1927, images from Lincolnville, St Augustine | florida memory St. Augustine City Directory, 1885-86 African-American Residents | rootsweb

Alachua, dixie, madison, suwannee 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 transcribed census & slave schedules | USGW archives MADISON COUNTY CENSUS TRANSCRIBED | USGW ARCHIVES 1901 MADISON COUNTY NEWSPAPER STORIES ABOUT VARIOUS TRAgEDIES IN 1901 | USGW ARCHIVES photo : unidentified gentleman 1916 live oak, suwannee county

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 1850 jacksonville free inhabitants | rootsweb Photo: fruit cove school house 1870-1880

Palm Beach County

Photo - bELLE gLADE - Two Women 1935 by Alan Lomax | Library of Congress Photo of bELLE gLADE Saloon Keeper 1935 by Alan Lomax | Library of Congress Photo of bELLE GLADE Singing Class 1941 | Library of Congress Photo OF BELLE GLADE Migratory Labor Hospital c1950 | Library of Congress 57 Misc photos of BELLE GLADE 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 belle glade area newspapers 1924-2024 | Internet archive Palm Beach guide [1938] | wpa uf FREE EBOOK : Pioneers in Paradise: West Palm Beach, the First 100 Years by Tuckwood, Jan, Kleinberg, Eliot } INTERNET ARCKIVE FREE EBOOK: Historic photos of Palm Beach County by Bramson, Seth | INTERNET ARCHIVE Migrant Programs in Florida. | INTERNET ARCHIVE america's own refugees 1941 | INTERNET ARCHIVE FREE EBOOK: Pearl City, Florida : a Black community remembers by Evans, Arthur S | INTERNET ARCHIVE the styx; palm beach's historically black neighborhood | palm beach preservation

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 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 Business Directory of the Orlando Negro Chamber of Commerce, 1960 | florida memory

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 paradise park photos, media, assorted documents | florida memory 1892 Map of Marion County | LOC MARION COUNTY, FLORIDA LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES and SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS | rootsweb Ocala Prior to 1868 | UCF Tourism and segregation at Silver Springs | the gainesville sun Early Statehood: The Land Rush 1845-1860 | oCALA STAR BANNER MARION COUNTY COMMISIONER MEETING RECORDS SEARCH PORTAL - HISTORIC TO PRESENT DAY | MARION COUNTY CLERK

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 history of volusia county , chapter XV after the war | pleasant daniel gold freemanville map and cemetery info new smyrna beach property map - beachside 1962 1860 volusia county map | library of congress various historic New Smyrna area maps and plat maps

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 The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands “The Freedmen’s Bureau” (Hernando and Pasco Counties) transcribed | rootsweb There are three indexes here. One is for deaths recorded in the St. Petersburg Times from 1901-1935, one for deaths recorded in the St. Petersburg Independent from 1908 to 1935, and one for deaths recorded in the Clearwater Sun from 1925 to 1927. | pgs Benton County ( hernando County) census , slave schedule, 1845 voter list transcribed | usgenwebranscriv=bed African American Heritage Trail of St. Petersburg, Florida | wikipedia photo: unidentified famiily St petersburg, pinellas county 1930s photo: children at lewin plantation, brooksvill, hernando county 1940s photo: homes on Lewis plantation, brooksville, hernando county 1940s

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

hillsborough, sarasota county

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 FREE EBOOK: More than Black : Afro-Cubans in Tampa by Greenbaum, Susan D | INTERNET ARCHIVE Hillsborough Remembers Oral History Collection | hcplc The Florida peninsular newspaper, 1855-1871 | uf The Tampa tribune newspaper 1897-1899 | uf Morning Tribune (Tampa, Florida) 1897-1898 | uf sarasota herald tribune 1925-2008 | google news The Sunland tribune 1877-1882 | UF Weekly Tribune (Tampa, Florida) 1897-1899 | uf Marriage License Record Books, and their respective indexes from 1846-1964 on deposit with the Clerk of the Hillsborough County Circuit Court | usf Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection Over 20,000 Historic Images The collection presents a pictorial record of the commercial, residential and social growth of Tampa Bay and Florida's West coast from the late 1800s to the early 1960s. | hcplc Hillsborough Black Experience collection from the City Tampa archives and records collection | hcplc free ebook: Family Records of the African American Pioneers of Tampa and Hillsborough County by Canter Brown, Jr.; Barbara Gray Brown | internet archive

Seminole, 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 1891 Map of Goldsboro, Seminole County ( then Orange County) | Riches UCF CENSUS OF NEGROES LIVING AND WORKING AT ISLEWORTH grove November 1, 1933, seminole county | riches ucf Map of Seminole County, Florida, 1936 | riches ucf Oral History: Marva Y. Hawkins recounts her life living in Goldsboro, a historic African-American community in Sanford, Florida. Her mother was the owner of the neighborhood grocery store, Hawkins' Meat Market, located off of West Thirteenth Street, originally called Goldsboro Avenue and now called Historic Goldsboro Boulevard. Hawkins lived in Goldsboro her entire life and attended Goldsboro Red School and Crooms High School, where she graduated in 1954 } Riches UCF Oral History : Luticia Lee, with her daughter, Cathy Lee Dingle. Lee was born in Sanford, Florida, where her mother bought a grocery store on First Street at half-interest in 1910. Lee's mother graduated from Sanford High School in 1913 and Lee graduated in 1942, after it was renamed Seminole High School. Her children in the attended the school in the 1960, and her grandson graduated later. Lee met her husband, James Lee, who had just returned from service in the U.S. Army in December of 1945. In September of 1946, the couple married. They had three children and five grandchildren. In this oral history, Lee discusses how they started the tradition of throwing pasture parties, life was like during integration in Sanford, how Jim Crow laws were applied, Lee's old house, and tornadoes and hurricanes that had passed through Sanford. | riches ucf

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 Photo: 2 men protecting a woman from the KKK, Dakota Ave, Lakeland, Polk County 1938

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 Okeechobee County | wpa uf Hollywood guide | wpa uf fREE EBOOK: History of Martin County, compiled by Janet Hutchinson, edited by Emeline K. Paige | INTERNET ARCHIVE Photos- Frank Westwood Collection - Over 100 photographs depicting scenes in the Lake Okeechobee, Everglades , and surrounding areas | florida memory

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, holmes, washington, calhoun COUNTY

Apalachicola Black History Trail | City of Apalachicola 1850 Holmes County, Florida Slave Schedule Index transcribed| rootsweb Free Ebook - Apalachicola before 1861 | Internet Archives Map drawn of Fort Gadsden | Florida Memory Dominickers | wikipedia

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 The Spanish censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820 : a genealogical guide to Spanish Pensacola | INTERNET ARCHIVE newspaper : august 29, 1952 edition of the colored citizen | uwf On May 24, 1901, The American Citizen (Kansas City, KS: an African-American newspaper) published this short blurb about Pensacola, Florida, noting that the Negroes owned more wealth per capita than the larger white population when averaged out. | uwf photo : portrait of unidentified man early 1900s Pensacols, escambia county

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 Pictorial history of Florida by Bowe, Richard J | INTERNET ARCHIVE Sectional descriptions of Florida squatters, recorded in December, 1938 Federal Writers' Project documents the personal histories of Southerners, which were collected through this New Deal program begun during the Depression. In these life histories, ordinary Southerners speak for themselves, and what they have to say provides a unique view of the world they experienced and helped create. | internet archive Historically segregated African-American schools in Florida | wikipedia Populated places in Florida established by African Americans | wikipedia African-American newspapers of Florida | wikipedia List of various African-American historic places in Florida | wikipedia Ghost towns in Florida | wikipedia Free Black Settlements of Florida | story maps ARCGIS Spanish land grants in Florida: Florida. Land Records 1941 | familysearch

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