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  • Dear Reader

Dear Reader: Show up, and make your mark in history

Former Cannon Street YMCA Little League players Vermort “Pop” Brown, center, and Carl…

  • September 7, 2022
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Plaiting of the Maypole

BY JON WILSON, Columnist  ST. PETERSBURG — The upcoming festival celebrating the…

  • September 18, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Inauguration of the Heritage Trail’s first phase

ST. PETERSBURG —The African American Heritage Association in St. Petersburg is…

  • September 11, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

History of racism in the SPPD

Surviving members of the Courageous 12, left, Freddie Crawford, Adam Baker and Leon…

  • June 26, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Who built St. Pete?

BY JON WILSON, Columnist From 1888 on, African Americans played huge roles in building…

  • June 19, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Al Downing: The Ambassador of Jazz

BY JON WILSON, Columnist Jazz master Alvin Joseph Downing, widely known for his music and…

  • June 12, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Happy Workers still going strong

BY JON WILSON, Columnist Opened to take care of working families’ youngsters in 1929,…

  • June 5, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Hidden History: Civil Rights Advances, Part 2

BY JON WILSON, Columnist Civil rights in St. Petersburg made considerable progress during…

  • May 29, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Hidden History: Civil rights advances, Part 1

BY JON WILSON, Columnist This year brings the 50th anniversary of the federal Civil…

  • May 22, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Campbell Park throughout the years

BY JON WILSON, Columnist Campbell Park has been an important community recreation asset…

  • May 1, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Paul Barco goes home

BY JON WILSON, Columnist The community has lost a treasure trove of history and wisdom…

  • April 24, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Jordan Park over the years

Elder Jordan, whom the housing complex is named after, was born into slavery in the…

  • April 17, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

The Original Mr. I Got ‘Em

Elijah Moore came to St. Petersburg in 1912 and, for decades, sold peanuts all over town…

  • April 10, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

Hidden History: Remembering Dr. Leggett

Dr. Gilbert Leggett and Dr. James Ponder receiving outstanding service awards accompanied…

  • February 6, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • St. Pete's Hidden History

St. Pete’s Hidden History: The men behind the schools

James B. Sanderlin, Douglas Jamerson, Thurgood Marshall and Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs BY…

  • January 2, 2014
  • Author TWC
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St. Pete’s Hidden History: St. Petersburg 100 years ago

Pepper Town was one of the first Black neighborhoods in St. Pete. Historians say the…

  • December 26, 2013
  • Author TWC
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St. Pete’s Hidden History: St. Petersburg 50 years ago

Black people were not allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…

  • December 26, 2013
  • Author TWC
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