By Holly Hearn Fort Mose State Park is filled with St. Augustine’s history dating back to 1687 when the first free black people from slavery in the Carolinas arrived. By 1738, the town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose had been constructed. It…
By Olivia Lockett The story of civil rights in St. Augustine isn’t just history- it’s alive in Lincolnville, where the past still echoes through its streets and people. The neighborhood, founded in 1866 by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, has a history that…
By Kaia Wright When Robbie Boggs took Flagler College students to the Pinehurst and San Sebastian cemeteries, students were shocked that these sites were in their backyard. Historically black cemeteries have experienced crude neglect. As the threats to them rise, more are disappearing from the…
A building that once housed St. Augustine’s black high school is open to the public as the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center, but its parking lot is empty.
I walked through the doors of Tampa General Hospital, and began looking for my dad.
Sitting around with the older black men who congregate on the corner of South Street and hearing their stories makes you realize that the neighborhood was once a different place.
On Wednesday, Sept. 18th in the Flagler College dining hall, students and faculty will unveil a multimedia Civil Rights archive that has been in the works for three semesters.
By Katie Enright | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I was in my sophomore year of high school when my sister called me from her dorm room at the University of Iowa to tell me she had fallen in love. I was so happy for her, I asked all the questions you ask someone about their significant other.
By Cassie Colby | gargoyle@flagler.edu
When thinking of the Civil Rights movement, images of police dogs and fire hoses mowing people down comes to mind. St. Augustine was once plagued with unimaginable segregation and daily violent outbreaks between whites and blacks.
By Cal Colgan | jcolgan@flagler.edu
Howard Lewis is frustrated that while the city of St. Augustine has started to recognize the importance of the civil rights movement in shaping the town’s history of race relations, most tour guides have left out 400 years of black influence in the nation’s “Oldest City.” He said they do not even acknowledge that Augustine of Hippo, the famous philosopher and theologian who is the town’s namesake, was an African.
“If you look up St. Augustine, you’ll see that he was born in Médéa, and the Internet will tell you that that is now Thagaste, Algeria,” Lewis said.