ASALH’s seventh annual Black History Month celebration featured award-winning filmmaker
Filmmaker Valerie Scoon discussed her award-winning documentary at ASALH’s Black…
Civil Rights Movement
‘A Visual History of Civil Rights & Social Change in Pinellas County,’ Part 3
Like many other public spaces, Black people were not allowed to sit on St. Pete’s…
‘A Visual History of Civil Rights & Social Change in Pinellas County,’ Part 2
During Jim Crow St. Petersburg, Mercy Hospital was the only hospital that would serve…
Segregated Sand: Florida’s Beaches in the Civil Rights Movement
With more than 1,300 miles of coastline, Black Floridians had to contend with the issue…
The end of Reconstruction and its continuing effects
The debate over Reconstruction and the Freedmen’s Bureau was nationwide. This 1866…
How a 1946 Case of Police Brutality Against a Black WWII Veteran Shaped the Fight for Civil Rights
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Askia Muhammad Aquil receives key to the city
Mayor Rick Kriseman presented Askia Muhammad Aquil with the key to the city on March 18…
Recapturing the social identity of the Black church
Outside of a Black church in Little Rock, Ark., 1935 BY REV. PIERRE LOOMIS WILLIAMS,…
The Civil Rights Legend Who Opposed Critical Race Theory
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Benches, Beaches & Boycotts—the Civil Rights Movement in Tampa Bay
Black people were only allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…
Years in Atlanta City Hall tested Lewis’ mettle
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Then and now: USF St. Petersburg professors weigh in on historic parallels of the BLM Movement
The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington…
Harry Lee, Willie Mae and Fannie Lou: ‘Lest we forget’
BY GOLIATH J. DAVIS, III, PH.D., Contributor ST. PETERSBURG — I am asked why I am…
Opening reception of local Civil Rights Movement exhibition
Panelist Fred Hearns, Gwendolyn Reese and Victoria Oldham discussed the Civil Rights…
Civil rights legend visits St. Pete
Ernest Patton, Jr. and Rev. Jana Hall-Perkins, senior pastor of McCabe United Methodist…
“You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West”
By Chauncey Devega | Salon “Green Book” won three awards, including Best…
1968: A pivotal year of change
Robert Kennedy and Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy toured the damages after days of rioting in…
On Jackie Robinson’s 100th Birthday, Celebrate A Man Whose Impact Was Bigger Than Baseball
By Aaron Homer | Inquisitr Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of baseball…