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The festivities included lots of speeches, music, and the ritual reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in its entirety.
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Only a fraction of the state's cemeteries have been officially located and documented.
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One woman's quest to learn where her ancestors may have been buried led to a historic African-American burial ground believed to hold the graves of former slaves from Welaunee and Fleischmann plantations in Leon County.
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More than 120 years ago, the vessel that would be the U.S.S. Tallahassee slid down the waves at a New Jersey shipyard.
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Tallahassee marks its 200th anniversary in less than 4 years. Planning for the big celebration is now underway.The Tallahassee Historical Society hosted a…
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More than fifty years after her death, a new work by Zora Neale Hurston will hit the presses. Barracoon is her account of the last known survivor of…
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For the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, WFSU is looking back on some of the Floridians who served. As a young Marine, Ted Archambault…
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In 1923, a white mob stormed the small, prosperous African American community of Rosewood, near Florida’s Gulf Coast. Fueled by racial resentment, the mob…
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2016 is a year when bonds across race, gender, and political party are being testing. But it’s also the 100th anniversary of the birth of a Florida…
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Wednesday marks the centennial of the birth of Stetson Kennedy, a folklorist, historian and social justice activist. He’s a larger than life figure in…