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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Eartha M. M. White Collection Container List, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections And University Archives
Eartha M. M. White Collection Container List, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections And University Archives
Finding Aids and Container Lists
Personal correspondence, documents, notes, memorabilia, printed materials and photographs. Notable materials include numerous photographs chronicling twentieth century black history in Jacksonville and historical photographs of urban Jacksonville. Included in the collection are the photographs of R. Lee Thomas, a black photographer active in the early twentieth century in the southern United States. Thomas' work covers primarily southern black religious and labor groups, circa 1946-49.
Lavilla, Florida, 1866-1887: Reconstruction Dreams And The Formation Of A Black Community, Patricia Drozd Kenney
Lavilla, Florida, 1866-1887: Reconstruction Dreams And The Formation Of A Black Community, Patricia Drozd Kenney
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Several factors which influenced the formation of an urban black community following the Civil War are examined in this study. Prior to the war, LaVilla, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida, was sparsely populated by wealthy white families. At war's end, freedmen seeking shelter and work took advantage of the inexpensive housing and proximity to employment LaVilla offered and, by 1870, became the majority population. The years 1866 through 1887 have been chosen for this study because they demarcate LaVilla's inception on the one hand and, on the other, its disappearance as an independent entity. Local, state, and federal records have …
Sallye B. Mathis And Mary L. Singleton: Black Pioneers On The Jacksonville, Florida, City Council, Barbara Hunter Walch
Sallye B. Mathis And Mary L. Singleton: Black Pioneers On The Jacksonville, Florida, City Council, Barbara Hunter Walch
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In 1967 Sallye Brooks Mathis and Mary Littlejohn Singleton were elected the first blacks in sixty years, and the first women ever, to the city council of Jacksonville, Florida. These two women had been raised in Jacksonville in a black community which, in spite of racial discrimination and segregation since the Civil War, had demonstrated positive leadership and cooperative action as it developed its own organizations and maintained a thriving civic life. Jacksonville blacks participated in politics when allowed to do so and initiated several economic boycotts and court suits to resist racial segregation. Black women played an important part …
Correspondence: August 30, 1960, Letter To Reverend Robert John Gisler - Jacksonville Ministerial Alliance From Florida House Representative Stallings, George B. Stallings Jr.
Correspondence: August 30, 1960, Letter To Reverend Robert John Gisler - Jacksonville Ministerial Alliance From Florida House Representative Stallings, George B. Stallings Jr.
John E. Mathews, Jr. Collection Textual Materials
A letter to Reverend Gisler declining the invitation to participate on a bi-racial committee of local citizens to solve the tense racial situation in Jacksonville, Florida. John E. Mathews Jr. Collection -Series 206 - Box 49 - Folder 379.