Africans participated in all the Spanish explorations and settlements in Florida, as they did throughout the Spanish Americas. In Florida they helped establish St. Augustine and the free black community of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. Africans and African Americans fought in the many confl...
Florida International UniversityGlanville C. People of African American Heritage. In Purnell LD, Paulanka B (eds). Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 2003:40–53.Campinha-Bacote, J. (2008). People of African-American heritage. In L.Purnell &...
Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) administers theHistoric American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Federal Government's oldest preservation program, and its companion programs: theHistoric American Engineering Record (HAER)and theHistoric American Landscapes Survey (HALS). Documentation produced through HABS...
served briefly as the state’s acting governor.Jonathan Gibbs served asFlorida’ssecretary of state and superintendent of education. Between 1869 and 1901, 20 African American representatives and 2 African American senators—Hiram R. RevelsandBlanche K. Bruceof Mississippi—sat in the U.S.Congress...
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下載Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network 開發的 App,包括 Florida Black History Museums。
Great Depression: workers at a canning plantWorkers, many of them migrants, grading beans at a canning plant in Florida in 1937. The economic hardships of the Great Depression hit African American workers especially hard. (more) The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak econom...
A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE Publication 354 / January 2004 USPS® All Rights Reserved For more than 125 years, the U.S. Postal Service’s® stamp program has celebrated the people, events, and cultural milestones that are unique to the history of our great nation. ...
Born on June 10, 1973, in Lakeland, Florida, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, she began singing at church at a young age, which sparked an enduring passion for music. Her early years were marked by a determination to overcome challenging circumstances, a trait that would later be...
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: With Henry Louis Gates Jr., Vincent Brown, Bernard E. Powers Jr., Peniel E. Joseph. Professor Gates describes the history of the African American people by talking to historians, au