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 OVERVIEW
OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
NOTE:
Also See Race
Relations from 1901 until Today
SUMMARIES
OF BLACK HISTORY OF FLORIDA
SUMMARIES
OF BLACK HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE
MISCELLANEOUS
INFO
 SUMMARIES OF BLACK
HISTORY OF FLORIDA
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AFRICAN AMERICAN
HISTORY OF FLORIDA -- Good overview entitled "African-Americans in
Florida and the Caribbean 1763-Today," by Susan Parker. From the
website "Myths and Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida
and the Caribbean."
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AFRICAN
AMERICAN HISTORY OF FLORIDA -- From "The American
Religious Experience."
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AFRICAN
AMERICAN HISTORY OF FLORIDA -- From the website FlaUSA.Com.
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AFRICAN
AMERICAN HISTORY OF FLORIDA -- Brief overview from FLAUSA.
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FLORIDA'S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICANS -- Listen to an audio report entitled "Florida's First
African
Americans." Tells about the African experience during Spanish
Colonial times. 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.
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AFRICAN
AMERICAN FIRST IN FLORIDA -- African American firsts in Florida,
from "FLA USA."
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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.
SUMMARIES
OF BLACK HISTORY OF JAX
MISCELLANEOUS
INFO
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DOWNTOWN
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY SPOTS -- Florida Times-Union article
entitled "History Comes Alive on downtown Tour ," by Alliniece T.
Andino. Tells about visits to local African American sites.
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AFRICAN
AMERICAN HISTORICAL SITES -- A brief overview of local
African American historical sites. From Culturally Florida.
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BLACK
HERITAGE TRAIL
-- Interesting webpage from the Jacksonville & the Beaches
Convention & Visitors Bureau. Gives info about Dixieland
Park, the
Black Heritage Tour, the Buccaneer Trail, and the history of Avondale
& San Marco.
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AFRICAN AMERICAN
HISTORY, 1890-1920 -- "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.
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1940s AFRICAN
AMERICAN COMMUNITY -- "Jacksonville Looks at Its Negro Community: A
Survey of Conditions Affecting the Negro Population in Jacksonville and
Duval County, Florida" (From 1946) -- 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.
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LIFE
IN ORANGE PARK -- Florida Times-Union article entitled
"Earning a Living during Hard Times: Determination
Leads Family to Orange Park," by Mary Jo McTammany. Tells about
African American workers in neighboring Orange Park during the
mid-1900s.
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RACE RELATIONS IN JAX
-- "An
Introduction to the History of Jacksonville Race Relations," by James
B.
Crooks. Is an excellent summary of some aspects of
Jacksonville's African American history. Was originally an
address
given to the JCCI Improving Race Relations study committee on October
30, 2001.
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LIFE
HISTORIES -- WPA Life Histories in Florida. Include
info about slavery. Are composed of interviews conducted with
older Americans during the 1930s. Provided by the Library of
Congress.
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VARIETY OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN HISTORY SOURCES, EARTHA WHITE COLLECTION -- "Selections
from the Eartha M.M. White Papers" (A variety of items & pictures
having to do with Jacksonville's African-American history during the
early 1900s) -- 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.
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FLORIDA HERITAGE
COLLECTION -- Wonderful website that provides hundreds of Florida
& Jacksonville books online in their entirety. NOTE: Many of
the Jacksonville books in the Florida Heritage Collection have been
indexed in JacksonvilleStory.com
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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."
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ONLINE
DOCUMENTS -- 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.
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