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The event coincides with the 62nd anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday, when a mob of white men chased and beat Black people in Downtown Jacksonville.
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Sheppard, an attorney, waged a nearly six-decade fight to transform Jacksonville and Florida.
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Four courageous Black teenagers refused to leave the segregated lunch counter at Woolworth's in July 1963. Now part of it has gone on display at The Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center.
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Former Jacksonville attorney Earl Johnson Jr. is arguing in a lawsuit filed Thursday that Confederate monuments on public land, and maintained by public…
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St. Johns County civil rights attorney Rook Ringer loved playing soccer as a kid, but she quit when it became clear to her that she just didn’t belong on…
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The newly named James Weldon Johnson Park in Downtown Jacksonville has been added to the African American Civil Rights Network on Thursday, the 60th…
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Students need to stay vigilant when it comes to racial equality. That was the messge Wednesday in a speech at the University of North Florida by a key…
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St. Augustine is home to one of five sites in Florida recently added to the United States Civil Rights Trail - a tourism marketing creation. The city’s…
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Historic markers memorializing two sites important to St. Augustine’s civil rights movement of the 1960s were ripped off their buildings over the past few…
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At Jacksonville City Hall Friday, it became official — the city’s Main Post Office in New Town is now known as the Rutledge Pearson Post Office.Pearson…