Bring the past into your life.
1500s-1600s: Genesis of the Black Experience
Exploration + Spanish Colonial Life
Educator Resources
Exhibit Guides
- First Colony: Our Spanish Origins (Florida Museum of Natural History)
Databases
- Spanish Colonial St. Augustine: a Resource for Teachers (Florida Humanities Council, University of Florida Libraries, P.K. Yonge Library)
Lesson Plans: Elementary School
- The Role of Status of Africans in Spanish St. Augustine (Florida Humanities Council, University of Florida Libraries, P.K. Yonge Library)
Multimedia
Audio
Digital Projects
- La Florida | The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas (University of South Florida, Edriel, Instituo Nauta)
- St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City (Florida Museum of Natural History)
Videos
- The African Diaspora Through The Americas (Williamson County Television)
- African Diaspora through the Americas: Slavery in Spanish America (Vanderbilt University)
- Free and Enslaved: Black Society in Spanish Florida 1513-1821: An evening with Dr. J. Michael Francis (Florida Trust For Historic Preservation)
- Luisa de Abrego: Marriage, Bigamy, and the Spanish Inquisition (LaFlorida | The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas)
- The Beginning of Black History: Juan Garrido (Black History in Two Minutes)
- The Spanish Colonial and Slavery Eras in Florida (Florida Humanities)
1700s: Fortress of Freedom
Sanctuary + Fort Mose
Educator Resources
Lesson Plans: Elementary – High School
- African-Americans Settle in Fort Mose (Exploring Florida)
- African Americans at Fort Mose (Florida Humanities Council, University of Florida Libraries, P.K. Yonge Library)
- Florida: A Slave Sanctuary (Florida Humanities Council, University of Florida Libraries, P.K. Yonge Library)
- Seeking Sanctuary on the Underground Railroad (Castillo de San Marcos National Monument)
Publications: Elementary – High School
- Discovering the Underground Railroad Jr Ranger Book (NPS National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom)
Multimedia
Audio
- Fort Mose: Colonial Period Free African American Settlement (Florida Humanities Audio Archive at the University of South Florida)
Digital Projects
- Fort Mose Artifacts in Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @ Florida Museum + Fort Mose: Colonial America’s Black Fortess of Freedom (Florida Museum of Natural History)
Videos
- 2nd Saturday: Fantastic Fort Mose (Museum of Florida History)
- 2012 Underground Railroad Conference Keynote Address (UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program)
- Archaeology at Fort Mose: On Land and Underwater (Fort Mose Historical Society)
- Fort Mose (Florida Public Archaeology Network – Northeast)
- Fort Mose + Fort Mose – First Colony: Our Spanish Origins (Florida Museum of Natural History)
- Fort Mose: America’s First Free Black Community + Free Black Settlements in Spanish Colonial Florida (Florida Historical Society)
- Fort Mose explained by Captain Francisco Menendez – African-American Community of Freedom (Bartram Trail Society of Florida)
- Fort Mose: The First All-Black Settlement in the U.S. (Black History in Two Minutes)
- Kathleen Deagan – Fort Mose (Arizona State University Hispanic Research Center)
- Seeking Sanctuary [Audio Described] (NPS Castillo de San Marcos + Fort Matanzas)
- Story Time: “Fort Mose” (NPS Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program)
- The First Underground Railroad (Black History in Two Minutes)
- The Missing Century of Black History in the Americas: Jane Landers (TEDx Talks)
- Washing Away History: Changing Tides at Fort Mose + Washing Away History: Digging for the Future at Fort Mose (UF George A. Smathers Libraries + Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center + Florida Museum of Natural History)
British Florida + Plantation Society
Multimedia
Digital Projects
- New World in a State of Nature; British Plantations and Farms on the St. Johns River, East Florida, 1763-1784 (University of North Florida)
Publications
- More Sources on the Lives of Those Enslaved in Northeast Florida (NPS Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve)
Videos
- African Diaspora through the Americas: Slavery in British America (Vanderbilt University)
- Kingsley Plantation- Interpretive Garden (Flagler College)
- The Spanish Colonial and Slavery Eras in Florida (Florida Humanities)
1800s: Breaking the Chains
Resistance + Statehood
Educator Resources
Lesson Plans
- I Lived Here, As Well: Lesson Plan [Download] + Suggested Readings List [Download] (Ximenez- Fatio House Museum)
Multimedia
Audio
- Seminole Wars #5: Second Seminole War as a Florida Negro War (Seminole Wars Foundation)
- Seminole Wars #16: Educator Extols Black Seminole Leader John Horse as Florida’s First Freedom Fighter (Seminole Wars Foundation)
- Seminole Wars #21: Prelude to the Seminole Wars: American ‘Patriot’ Invasion of Spanish East Florida in 1812 (Seminole Wars Foundation)
- Seminole Wars #24: Black Seminole Leaders Offered Key Support, Collaboration to Native Resistance (Seminole Wars Foundation)
Videos
- The People of Territorial Florida Lecture Series: Dr. Nashid Madyun (Museum of Florida History)
Civil War + Emancipation + Reconstruction
Multimedia
Publications
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Army Life in a Black Regiment. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. (Project Gutenberg)
Digital Projects
- The Day of Jubilee: Emancipation in St. Augustine, FL (St. Augustine Historical Society)
Videos
- Alexander Darnes (St. Augustine Historical Society)
- Election to Insurrection: The Black Enfranchisement Question (Lincolnville Museum + Cultural Center)
- Pursuing Progress [Audio Described] (NPS Castillo de San Marcos + Fort Matanzas)
- Reconstruction: A Taste of Freedom (Lincolnville Museum + Cultural Center)
- Watch Night: Looking to Freedom (Lincolnville Museum + Cultural Center)
1900s: Crossroads of Change
Jim Crow + Segregation + Innovation
Multimedia
Digital Projects
- Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business (University of North Florida)
Videos
- David Krasner Introduces Zora Neale Hurston’s Color Struck (2003) + Color Struck (2003): Reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s Play (Barnard Center for Research on Women)
- Frank Butler Virtual Tour (Lincolnville Museum + Cultural Center)
- From Colored to Black: The stories of North Central Florida (UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program)
- Local History Spotlight – Richard A. Twine (St. Johns County Public Library System)
- Pursuing Progress [Audio Described] (NPS Castillo de San Marcos + Fort Matanzas)
Civil Rights Movement
Educator Resources
Reading Guides + Lesson Plans- Forcing Change by Judy Lindquist (Florida Historical Society)
- From Colored To Black: The Stories Of North Central Florida (UF Center For Arts In Medicine)
- Marching for the Movement in St. Augustine (Castillo de San Marcos National Monument)
Multimedia
Digital Projects
- St. Augustine Freedom Trail Historical Markers (The Historical Marker Database)
Audio
- Florida Frontiers Radio Program #95: St. Augustine Foot Soldiers (Florida Historical Society)
- Race and Remembrance Episode #3: North Florida Civil Rights Movement (Samuel Proctor Oral History Program)
- St. Augustine 1964: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement (Florida Humanities)
- St. Augustine, Florida, Civil Rights Activist Robert Hayling (Samuel Proctor Oral History Program)
Videos
- An Oral History With James Jackson, February 15, 2018 (Samuel Proctor Oral History Program)
- Bank store keeps memories of civil rights era alive (Wells Fargo)
- Florida Frontiers TV Episode #2: Everyday People Making History (Florida Historical Society)
- Dr. Martin Luther King in St. Augustine, 1964 + Martin Luther King Jr. in Saint Augustine (Wolfson Archive)
- Freedom Tree (NPS Castillo de San Marcos)
- “I Am a Man”: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Florida (Florida Humanities)
- Marching for the Movement [Audio Described] (NPS Castillo de San Marcos + Fort Matanzas)
- Oral History Interview with Maude Burroughs Jackson (NPS Castillo de San Marcos)
- Passage at St. Augustine (Clennon L. King)
- St. Augustine Civil Rights Demonstrations (1964) (Florida Memory)
- The forgotten “wade-ins” that transformed the US (Vox)
Uncovering + Preserving + Sharing The Past
Multimedia
Videos
- Kathleen Deagan – Fort Mose (Arizona State University Hispanic Research Center)
- The Missing Century of Black History in the Americas: Jane Landers at TEDxNashville (TEDxTalks)
- Washing Away History: Changing Tides at Fort Mose + Washing Away History: Digging for the Future at Fort Mose (UF George A. Smathers Libraries + Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center + Florida Museum of Natural History)
2000s: Making History Today
Multimedia
Digital Projects
- Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business (University of North Florida)
Publications
- The West Augustine Historic District Assessment Survey, City of St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida (June 2008) (St. Johns County)
Videos
- 37th Annual Dr MLK Jr Breakfast Celebration (Flagler College)
- 2012 Underground Railroad Conference Keynote Address (UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program)
- Archaeology at Fort Mose: On Land and Underwater (Fort Mose Historical Society)
- Archives Month The Resilience Project – 10/29/21 (St. Johns County Public Library System)
- Artist Talk with Dr. Martha Bireda, Shawana Brooks, and Dr. Lori Lee (Flagler College)
- Artist Talk with Karen Hampton, Dr. Kathy Deagan, and Dr. Jane Landers (Flagler College)
- “Black Lives Matter”: The Current Struggle for Civil Rights and Racial Justice in Florida (Florida Humanities)
- Civil Rights, Equality, and Racial Justice in the Age of Black Lives Matter (The Florida Historical Society)
- Diversity + Inclusion In Florida Historic Preservation (Preservation On Main Street)
- Flagler College Honors Program Learning Community Exhibit “In Conversation” (St. Augustine Historical Society)
- Local HERstory Women of Lincolnville — 4/29/2021 (St. Johns County Public Library System)
- Meet the Collectors and Curators Virtual Event Resilience Black Heritage in St Augustine (Flagler College Archives)
- Museum Tour: Ximenez-Fatio House Museum — 5/11/2021 (St. Johns County Public Library)
- Panel Discussion: Understanding Slavery through Archaeology (The Grove Museum)
- Photographer Lenny Foster Where We Stand – 12/8/2021 (St. Johns County Public Library)
- TAM // In Conversation : Introducing The Kinseys (Tacoma Art Museum)
- Washing Away History: Changing Tides at Fort Mose + Washing Away History: Digging for the Future at Fort Mose (UF George A. Smathers Libraries + Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center + Florida Museum of Natural History)
- Zora Neale Hurston’s Birthday- A Tour of Eatonville Sites — 1/07/2022 (St. Johns County Public Library)
Additional Resources
Associations + Networks
- Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network
- The Black Cemetery Network.
- West Augustine Improvement Association
Educator Resources
- African American History Task Force (Florida Commissioner of Education)
- African and African American Experiences (University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
- Anti-Racism Resources (University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
- I Lived Here, As Well: Lesson Plan [Download] + Suggested Readings List [Download] (Ximenez- Fatio House Museum)
Multimedia
Digital Projects
- Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equity (ProQuest)
- Black Past (BlackPast.org)
- Civil Rights Movement Archive (NPS African American Civil Rights Network)
- Enslaved | Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Matrix, Michigan State University, University of Maryland)
- Freedom On The Move (Cornell University, University of Alabama, University of Kentucky, University of New Orleans, Ohio State University)
- Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery (Villanova University, Mother Bethel AME Church)
- Lynching In America (Equal Justice Initiative)
- Race and Slavery Petitions Project (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- Slave Societies Digital Archive (Vanderbilt University)
- Slave Voyages (Emory University)
- Visualizing Emancipation (University of George, University of Richmond)
Publications + Videos
- African Americans In St. Augustine (Visit St. Augustine)
- Black History Month: Book List (St. Johns County Public Library System)
- Black History in St. Johns County: Books + Films List (St. Johns County Public Library System) [Download]
- Field Trip – Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center (St. Johns County Public Library System)
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