Students work towards remodeling former Excelsior High School
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.
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Looking for fairness in gay rights
I walked through the doors of Tampa General Hospital, and began looking for my dad.
Lincolnville resident represents lost community
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.
Flagler’s St. Augustine Civil Rights Archive to be unveiled
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.
Gay Marriage: The Civil Rights Movement of the 21st Century
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.
Online Civil Rights archive to focus on unheard voices of St. Augustine
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.
Guide carves niche out of telling 400 years of black history
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.
Archives donation paves way for racial understanding
By Cal Colgan | jcolgan@flagler.edu
Flagler College is kicking off its first week of the school year not just with classes, but also with a commitment to preserving the oft-forgotten recent history of St. Augustine.