HOVER OVER PHOTOS FOR CAPTIONS claude neal newspaper says crowd disappointed Dade Lynchings Fisk University Jubilee Singers at the Court of Queen Vivtoria 1873 Fisk University Jubilee Singers 1873 Fisk University Jubilee Singers 1901 Fisk University one of the early buildings Fisk University students Florida black cowboys poster Florida Governor Sidney Catts was a racist who refused to investigate the lynchings of Florida blacks. Former enslaved couple_ Sarah and Sam Douglas_ 82 and 89. Ham hocks green Horace Sharpe Jr. in front of one of the first homes in Miami's Liberty City. Inside a slave cabin Joe Lang Kershaw_ a Dade County teacher_ in 1968 became the first black person in Florida to be elected to the Florida House of Representatives. Johnnie Mae Chappell Jonathan Gibbs was Florida's Secetary of State during Reconstruction. He was probably assassinated. Jorge Biassou was a Haitian leader of the revolution in that country. He moved to St Augustine and helped the Spanish to defend it. A significant number of Haitians lived in the city. Josiah Walls (center) with the other congressmen from the South during Reconstruction. The man on the far left was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Josiah Walls was a congressman from Florida during Rerconstruction Juan Garrido and Juan Ponce de Leon Gonzalez arrived with Ponce de Leon Lincoln at the Antietam Battlefield with General George B. McCellan and Allan Pinkerton who headed what became the Secret Service. Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon with her mother's spinning wheel_ 1937_ Alabama M. Athalie Range Miami's first black female on the city commission Marianna_ Florida main street « ‹ of 37 › »