Robert Gabriel was a state legislator representing Monroe County, Florida. [1] He lived in the neighborhood of Bahama Village in Key West, Florida. [2] [3]
He served in the Florida House of Representatives in 1879 and served several years as Key West City Commissioner. [4]
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 687, down from 702 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland. Most of the developed area for the City of Cedar Key has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th century. The Cedar Keys are named for the eastern red cedar Juniperus virginiana, once abundant in the area.
Bruce Armistead Smathers is a retired Democratic politician from Florida. He served as the 18th Secretary of State of Florida from 1975 to 1978.
The Paul Laurence Dunbar School is a historic school in Fort Myers, Florida. It is located at 1857 High Street. On February 24, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Robert Meacham (1835–1902) was an educational, religious and political leader in Florida during and after Reconstruction. An African-American, he was a slave in Quincy, Florida; one of the sons of his enslaver, he was educated by him. He purchased his freedom and that of his mother with money he had saved out of gratuities given to him by his father. He helped to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Florida and acted as a minister. He helped write Florida's new Constitution of 1868.
Hines is an unincorporated community in Dixie County, Florida. Prince Benjamin Oliver Sr., a long serving educator of African American descent, taught there early in his career. Hines is located in a remote and largely undeveloped area of the state along County Road 357 south of Steinhatchee Conservation Area and north of Cross City, Florida and US 19-98.
William Manly King was an architect in the United States. He is known for the buildings he designed in Florida, especially West Palm Beach. Several are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Pinellas High School was a public high school from 1934 until 1968 in Clearwater, Florida. It served African Americans from the surrounding area of northern Pinellas County including Largo, Clearwater, Dunedin, Safety Harbor and Tarpon Springs during the era of segregation. It was at 1220 Palmetto Street. During its existence, it was the first segregated school in the region and it was the only school exclusively serving Black students in Pinellas County.
Nathan W. Collier (1872–1941) was an American academic administrator who served as president of Florida Baptist Institute and then Florida Normal and Technical Institute from 1896 onward. Florida Baptist Institute was established by Collier and Sarah Ann Blocker, who combined Florida Baptist Institute and Florida Baptist Academy to form it. Collier was president of the historically black college from 1896 to 1941. The institution later was developed and renamed as Florida Memorial University.
Liberty Billings (1823–1877) was an American officer in the Union Army, a Unitarian minister, and a state senator.
The Milner-Rosenwald Academy building is a former Rosenwald School, located at 1560 Highland Street, Mount Dora, Florida. It was opened in 1926, based on a design by architect Frank L. Bodine, and served students up to 8th grade. The school closed in 1962.
Frederick Douglass School was a school for African American children in Key West's Bahama Village neighborhood. It opened in 1870. William Middleton Artrell, who also served on Key West's city council in 1875 and 1876, headed the school. He was a temperance advocate. He also worked at Stanton Institute in Jacksonville.
The Yemassee Settlement was a residential neighborhood developed in Deland, Florida for African Americans. It was planned during the Progressive Era. The Greater Union Baptist Church was built in the area in 1893. It is a site on Florida's Black Heritage Trail.
Mathew McFarlan Lewey, was an American newspaper editor and publisher, postmaster, lawyer, politician, and justice of the peace in Florida. He also served as an officer in the Union Army, and as a militia officer. Lewey, who was from Baltimore, Maryland, was the first licensed Black male lawyer in Florida. He was a member of the National Negro Business League. He also used the name M.M. Lewey.
T. Scipio Jasper was an American state legislator in Florida. He was one of several African American members of the Florida House of Representatives who served in the body for Marion County, Florida and lived in Ocala, Florida during the Reconstruction era.
Lucien Fisher, sometimes spelled Lucian Fisher, was a state legislator in Florida. He represented Leon County in the Florida House of Representatives. He served in 1875.
E. O. Douglas High School served African American students during segregation in Sebring, Florida, United States. It was the only high school available to African Americans in Highlands County, Florida. Samuel C. Nixon was its principal from 1946 until it closed in 1970. The school was named for bank president and trustee Eugene Oren Douglas. It became an elementary school in 1967 and closed was closed with desegregation in 1970.
Kevin M. McCarthy is an American historian, professor and author. He was born in Gainesville, Florida and returned to live and work there as a professor at the University of Florida. He received the Charlton Tebeau Award from the Florida Historical Society in 1994 for African Americans in Florida: An Illustrated History and the Patrick Smith Literary Prize from Library of the Florida Historical Society in 1999 for A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Vernone Lamme was a writer and editor in Florida. He served as Florida's first state archaeologist. He wrote for Florida newspapers, was an amateur archaeologist and became an official overseeing archaeological excavations. Later in his life he authored books including Floridian lore.
David Montgomery was a sheriff, tax collector, local politician and state legislator in Florida. He ran for Lieutenant Governor.
New Monrovia was an African American community established near West Palm Beach, Florida in the area now known as Port Salerno.
