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Showing posts with label African American history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American history. Show all posts
Monday, January 17, 2022

Dr. James F. Sistrunk: Among Fort Lauderdale's first Black doctors

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Steamboat Everglades on the New River   circa 1922 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan James Franklin Sistrunk (1891-1966), a Fort Lauderd...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

First African American radio station in Miami is ...

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WFEC studio Christened at the Lord Calvert Hotel, Overtown, Miami  circa 1950 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Miami radio station WFEC...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Fort Lauderdale's Woodlawn Cemetery restored to dignity for African Americans, migrant workers and indigent

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  By Jane Feehan Since the early 1900s  Woodlawn Cemetery  was the final resting place for Fort Lauderdale’s African- Americans, migrant wor...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

"Swim-in" protests spark desegregation of Fort Lauderdale beaches 1961

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Fort Lauderdale Beach demonstration 1961  State of Florida Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan It wasn’t easy for all to enjoy Fort Laude...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Fort Lauderdale's day of infamy: the 1935 lynching of Rubin Stacy

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By Jane Feehan I first wrote about this day of evil as a student at Virginia Commonwealth University during the 1970s. I had read abou...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Broward County's Female Firsts

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By Jane Feehan Broward County can boast about a few female firsts . Below are several of these "first women" who made s...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Broward County's Black-White teacher exchange and desegregation

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By Jane Feehan Though public schools in the U.S. were ordered to desegregate in 1954 ( Brown v. Board of Education ), they remained seg...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Trailblazer Dr. Mizell served African Americans of Fort Lauderdale, Belle Glade

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By Jane Feehan Dr. Von Delaney Mizell (1910-1973), familiar to many in Fort Lauderdale for providing medical care to his African ...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Liston-Clay fight in Miami Beach, a star is born

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Feb. 25, 1964 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan It was announced in December 1963 that a matchup between boxing champ Sonny Liston an...