HOVER OVER PHOTOS FOR CAPTIONS Felix recalls the end of the Civil War Dade Lynchings Confederate General Nathaniel Bedford Forrest was one of the men who established the Ku Klux Klan. Civil rights Miami CORE training Florida civil rights leader_ Patricia Due was present with her sister_ 1959. Charley Mitchell_ ex-slave_ Marshall_ Texas Black vets at Miami's new Virginia Key Beach for Negroes circa 1945. Black vets were key to the early start of the civil rights movement in Miami. Attendants at Old Slave Day_ Southern Pines_ North Carolina April 8 1937 Andrew Moody and wife Tildy ex-slave Orange Tx An enslaved woman in North Carolina remembers her wedding An enslaved child was prohibited from learning to read or write. Some learned in spite of this sometimes helped by sympathetic whites. An enslaved woman recalls her wedding An elderly enslaved woman Abraham Jones's house. Abraham Jones age 112 former slave in Alabama 1937 A slave cabin in Barbour County Alabama near Eufaula photographed between 1936 and 1938.. William Colbert a former enslaved man in Alabama photographed between 1936 and 38. Black Miami book cover A History of Florida Through Black Eyes by Dr. Marvin Dunn A black barber shop in rural Georgia_ 1941 Booker T. Washington with a group of black men in Palatka Florida 1915 Lt. Madeline Swegle USN the first black female fighter pilot Esteban the Black by N. Herrick. This black man was the first person who was not a Native American to see the Grand Canyon. He arrived with one of the Spanish conquistadors in the 1500s. USS Kitty Hawk my first carrier. I was the only black among the 1 400 officers. My dduties were on the bridge Black Miami book cover « ‹ of 37 › »