OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS

VARIOUS GROUPS

• CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS IN JAX -- A list of many of the cultural organizations in Jacksonville.  List is furnished by the Jacksonville & the Beaches Convention & Visitors Bureau.  The local cultural organizations include the Icelandic American Association, the Sons of Norway, the Lebanese American Club, and the North Florida Korean Association.

• "IMMIGRANT JACKSONVILLE" -- "Immigrant Jacksonville: A Profile of Immigrant Groups in Jacksonville, Florida, 1890-1920"-- In addition to other info in this source, "Chapter 3" provides info about social & political conditions in Jacksonville as they affected African Americans. -- NOTE:  The entire text of this source is available online.  It's provided in the wonderful website called the "Florida Heritage Collection," maintained by the State University System of Florida.   When you get to the website, you can search by keywords.  Just type in "Jacksonville," or "Duval County," or other keywords, such as words from a title.  ALSO NOTE: Most of the individual Jacksonville items in the Florida Heritage Collection are listed in JacksonvilleStory.com, the site you're now in. 

• FLORIDA FOLKLIFE FOR THE EARS  --  Audio reports that yield detail about a multiplicity of ethnic groups in Florida.  This website documents "African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures."  The site is entitled "Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942."  

• VARIOUS GROUPS -- Website entitled "Celebrating Diversity," from "Culturally Florida."  Provides info about ethnic groups in Florida history.

• VARIOUS GROUPS -- Listen to an audio report entitled "Documenting Florida's Diversity Online."  Tells about the Library of Congress placing parts of it's many collections on the World Wide Web. Provided by the Florida Humanities Council.  NOTE: When you get to the webpage, click on the heading "Last Month's Programs."  Keep clicking this heading until you get to the page that contains the audio report you want. 

• FLORIDA HERITAGE COLLECTION -- Info about the subjects on this webpage may be available at the the marvelous "Florida Heritage Collection." This website gives full-text, online copies of hundreds of Florida books.  NOTE: When you get to the website, you can search in different ways.  These searches include by "Florida Themes" or by "Florida History Timeline."  You can also search by "Florida County" and by "Keywords."  With keyword searching, just type in "Jacksonville," "Duval County," or other keywords, such as words from a title.  ALSO NOTE:  Many of the individual Jacksonville items in the Florida Heritage Collection are listed in JacksonvilleStory.com, the site you're now in. However, Jacksonville info can often be found in books about Florida in general. Many of theses books are at the Florida Heritage Collection website.

SPECIFIC GROUPS

• ASIAN AMERICANS -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Asians Promote Heritage," by Alliniece T. Andino.  Tells about the designation of May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

• ASIAN AMERICANS-- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Jacksonville Family Looks Back on Narrow Escape from Vietnam," by Margie Mason.  Tells about a local Vietnamese family's escape from their homeland in 1975.

• CUBAN HERITAGE TRAIL -- A web page that lists two Jacksonville locations that are on Florida's Cuban Heritage Trail.  Web page maintained by the State of Florida

• CUBA & FLORIDA -- Overview of the Cuban & Florida ties that date back to the Spanish Era.  From the web site FlaUSA.com.

• GERMAN AMERICANS -- June, 2002 newspaper article entitled "German Ancestry Listed as Largest in Florida," by Ron Word.  From Jacksonville.com.

• HISPANIC AMERICANS -- Jacksonville Business Journal article entitled "Growing Hispanic Population Boosts Northeast Florida," by Devan Stuart.

• JEWISH HISTORY -- Overview of Florida's Jewish history.  From FloridaJewish.com.

• JEWISH HISTORY -- Additional info in regard to Florida's Jewish history.  From JewishMuseum.com.

• JEWISH HISTORY SITES -- Listen to an audio report entitled "Florida's Jewish Heritage Trail."  Provided by the Florida Humanities Council.  NOTE: When you get to the webpage, click on the heading "Last Month's Programs."  Keep clicking this heading until you get to the page that contains the audio report you want. 

• POLISH AMERICANS -- Florida Times-Union article called "Polish American Club Preserves a Unique Heritage, Traditions," by Jill Taylor.  Tells about the Polish American Club of Northeast Florida.