 Florida
State Normal and Industrial School class of
1904 - Tallahassee, Florida.
Robert William Butler, John Adams Cromartie,
Arthur Rudolph Grant, Walter Carolus Smith
(front row at left), Rufus Jason Hawkins,
Walter Theodore Young, Rosa Belle Lee,
Marguerite Guinervere Wilkins [Smith] (3rd
from left, top row), Sara Grace Moore,
Winifred Leone Perry, Margaret Adelle
Yellowhair (2nd from right, front row).
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 Mary
McLeod Bethune with a line of girls from the
school
Note opera house in far distant background
has posters of African American soprano
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, aka "The
Black Patti. "The Daytona Literary and
Industrial School for Training Negro Girls
was established 1904 by Mary McLeod Bethune
with 5 girls and $1.50 cash in a rented
cabin. By 1918 there was a four story
building called Faith Hall, a 2 story
building used for kitchen and a new $40,000
auditorium on 20 acres. Classes offered in
sewing, dressmaking, domestic science,
gardening, poultry raising, raffia work, rug
weaving, chair caning, broom making teacher
and nurses training. An additional building
some distrance from the campus was fitted up
for the education of boys and men. |
 Robert
Hungerford Normal and Industrial School,
Booker T. Washington Hall, cir. 1910
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 Former
slave Bishop Abram Grant, D.D. and wife
Florida Grant
Biography Note: Grant was born on August 25,
1848, the slave of Frank Rollison. He ran
away with his brother Alex, and Johns and
James Gray but was captured and sold by his
owner in Columbus, Georgia. He ran away
again and joined the Union army. He returned
to Lake City after the war, then moved to
Jacksonville where he entered the ministry.
He was elected the 19th Bishop of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church on May
19, 1888, and ordained on May 24.
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 Former
slave Charity Stewart - Jefferson County,
Florida
Charity Stewart was born in 1844. During the
Civil War she was hidden in the swamps of
Jefferson County to make soap for the
soldiers. After freedom, she returned to her
former owners home where she stayed until
they died. For many years she lived alone in
an old log house in Jefferson County. She
was 93 when this photo was taken in 1937. |
 Portrait
of Jonathan C. Gibbs
Accompanying note: "Served Nov. 6, 1868 to
Jan. 17, 1873, as Sec. of State. Served:
Jan. 23, 1873, to his death on Aug. 14, 1874
as Sup. of Pub. Inst." |
 Joseph
E. Lee - Jacksonville, Florida
Born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the
Institute for Colored Youth in the early
1860s and graduated from Howard University
in law, 1873. He was admitted to the Florida
bar that year and was one of the first
blacks to practice in Florida. During his
lifetime he was a municipal judge, Minister,
collector of customs and internal revenue.
He was a member of the Florida House from
1875-1880 and the Florida Senate from
1881-82. |
 Judge
James Dean - Monroe County, Florida
Having graduated first in his class from
Howard Law School he was elected Monroe
County judge over two white candidates in
1888. Governor Francis P. Fleming removed
him from office in 1889 for marrying a black
woman and a white man (although the groom
said he was mulatto). Fleming replaced Dean
with Angel De Lono, who was the first
Hispanic judge elected in the Keys (Dean was
said to be the first black county judge
elected after reconstruction in Florida).
Dean sued De Lono and argued his case
against removal from office before the U.S.
Supreme Court on September 13, 1891 to no
avail. He left Key West penniless and
disgraced, for Jacksonville where he died a
pauper at age 59 in 1914. In 2002 Governor
Jeb Bush reinstated his judgeship.
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 Portrait
of Reverend James Page - Tallahassee,
Florida
First ordained black minister in Florida.
First pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist
Church. Came to Leon County as the slave of
John Parkhill from Richmond, Va. Was a
gardener, carriage driver as well as a body
servant to his owner. After Page was
ordained, Parkhill gave him land for the Bel
Air Church and a horse and buggy were
maintained at the Parkhill stables for his
use. Pastor for 13 years of Bethel, the
largest and strongest black church in the
state. Ran unsucessfully for the Florida
Senate, 1870. Died March 14, 1883, at age
75. |
Portrait of
blues clarinet player Raymond Sheppard
holding a trumpet - Pensacola, Florida.
Between 1930 and 1949 |
 Engraved
portrait of Timothy Thomas Fortune
Accompanying note: "Born to slave parents,
Sarah Jane & Emanuel Fortune, Oct. 3, 1856."
"Made himself useful in the office of the
Marianna Courier after the war." After
family moved to Jax., worked in composing
room of the Jax. Courier then The Union."
"Attended Stanton School and worked at Jax.
P.O. Appointed in 1874 as mail-route agent
between Jax. & Chattahoochee. Resigned 1875
and was appt.d Spec. Insp. of Customs for
the Eastern Dist. of Del. Resigned 1875 and
entered Howard University Joined composing
room of The People's Advocate at Wash. &
married Carrie C. Smiley. Taught school in
Florida. Joined NY's Weekly Witness. Edited
The Rumor. Pub. NY Freeman." |
 Eartha
M.M. White and her mother Clara White -
Jacksonville, Florida
Circa 1910, Eartha M. M. White was a
humanitarian, businesswoman and
philanthropist from Jacksonville. She
created educational opportunities and
provided relief to African-Americans in
northeastern Florida. White helped found
several organizations and institutions,
including the Clara White Mission, Mercy
Hospital and the Boy's Improvement Club. She
was designated as a Great Floridian by the
Florida Department of State in the year
2000. |
