What happened when African Americans were emancipated?
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What happened when African Americans were emancipated?
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Irene Walker's grave marker, city cemetery
Irene Walker continued to work as a nanny to white children after emancipation. Her employer, the Judge family, purchased a grave marker for her when she died. However, it does not make mention of her family. Instead, it relates to the Judges'…
U.S. Freedman Bank record for Irene Walker
Irene Walker continued to work as a nanny to white children after emancipation. Her employer, the Judge family, purchased a grave marker for her when she died. However, it does not make mention of her family. Instead, it relates to the Judges'…
FSU demolished the old Lincoln Academy building in the summer of 1962
The Florida Flambeau took pictures of the demolition of the old Lincoln Academy in the summer of 1964. The newspaper noted that it had originally stood where FSU built the music building. This time instead of moving it again, FSU demolished it. At…
Frenchtown was home to a number of African American businesses
Group portrait at the Atlanta Life Insurance Company
An early description of Smoky Hollow
The earliest description of the specific topography and social geography of Smoky Hollow comes from Bradford Torrey, an American ornithologist whose writings were meant to inspire early environmental tourism. He traveled to Florida in the early 1890s…
Aerial view of Smoky Hollow, 1947
Prior to the creation of Apalachee Parkway and the creation of a number of state buildings, Smoky Hollow, an African American community, occupied that area.
Judgment in Plessy v Ferguson
The National Archives provided the following description: "During the era of Reconstruction, black Americans' political rights were affirmed by three constitutional amendments and numerous laws passed by Congress. Racial discrimination was attacked…
Concord School for African Americans, Miccosukee
Established in the late 1870s, Concord was a one-room school house one mile south of Miccosukee on State Road 59. An open well supplied the water. It continued to serve as a school until the 1960s, growing in the number of buildings, students, and…
John Stoke's Oath of Office for the Sheriff of Leon County
During Reconstruction in Florida, African American men could be found in leadership roles within law enforcement, city government, and local ministries. From 1868 to 1877, seven African American men served as county sheriffs. John Stokes served as…