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Photo Credit: John Reidy St. Augustine, Florida, is the oldest city in the United States, and until 1964, one of the most segregated. A dentist and NAACP representative named Robert Hayling from the historic subdivision of Lincolnville initiated the protest actions that eventually ended discrimination in the old city. Lincolnville, established in 1866, was the [...]
Located on the eastern edge of a marsh, two miles north of St. Augustine Florida, Fort Mose (pronounced Moh-Say) is the site of the earliest known legally sanctioned free black community in the present U.S. In 1738, the Spanish governor of Florida chartered the settlement of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, or Fort [...]
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