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Stringbeans May and the Birth of the Blues in Black Vaudeville
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Tagged "Pray for the Lights to Go Out", A Bunch of Blues, Alan Lomax, Alf Kelly, Ashley Street Blues, Ballin' the Jack, Bijou Theater, Black Masonic Temple, Black Masonic Temple Jacksonville, Blind Blake, Broadway Rastus, Buddy Bradley, Butler "String Beans" May, Butler May, Charlie Johnson and His Paradise Band, Chicago Defender, Clara White Mission, Colored Airdome, Dave Seroff, David Sager, Eartha Mary Magdalene White, Eartha White, Elgin Movements, Ellen Goodloe, Erwin Bosman, Florence McClain, Frank Montgomery, Genaro Urso, Globe Theater, Gus Haenschen, Hattie Akers, Hillman Pratt Funeral Home, Incorporated Prince Hall Affiliated, Indianapolis Freeman, Irvin Miller, J. Paul Wyer, Jean Stearns, Jelly Roll Morton, Jessie May Horn, Jim Crow, LaVilla, Leola Wilson, Lubin Company, Lynn Abbott, Ma Rainey, Marshall Stearns, New York Age, Perry Bradford, Rastus Among the Zulus, Robert Johnson, Salem Tutt Whitney, Strand Theater, Stringbeans May, Sweetie Matthews, Sylvester Russell, Tony Langston, W.C. Handy, Will Benbow, Will Benbow’s Chocolate Drops Company, Willis Laurence James, Zip Coon
New Story: Schools Named for Confederates and the Demise of Manhattan Beach
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Tagged Agnes Lloyd Cobb, Alfred duPont, American Beach, An American Beach for African Americans, Atlantic Beach, Avondale, Bob Rutter, Camilla Thompson, Chloe Merrick, Davis Street Blues, Deerwood, Dew Drop Alley Stomp, Don Mabry, Donal Godfrey, Eartha White, Ed Ball, Edward Ball, Hanna Park, Harcourt Bull, Henry Flagler, jax psycho geo, jaxpsychogeo, JEB Stuart, Jefferson Davis Junior High, Jefferson Davis Middle School, Jessie Ball duPont, Joseph Davin, Joseph E. Lee, Joseph Finegan, Joseph Finegan Elementary School, Kathryn Abbey Hanna, Ku Klux Klan, Lackawanna Elementary, Mack Wilson, Mack Wilson's Pavilion, Manhattan Beach, Marsha Dean Phelts, Nathan Bedford F, Nathan Bedford Forrest High School, Ponte Vedra, Ponte Vedra Beach, RCBS Corporation, Robert Hayden, Rogers Crawford Swartz and Bull, San Marco, Stockton Whatley Davin, Sugar Underwood, Tim Gilmore
Vote, 2020, against the Terrorist Tactics of 1920
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Tagged 19th amendment, A.C. Shuler, Anna Fletcher, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, BossCity and Headfirst, Bowman Cook, Carlos Bee Texas, Clara White Mission, Duncan Fletcher, Eartha M.M. White, Eartha Mary Magdalene White, Eartha White, Election Day 1920 Florida, First Baptist Church, Florida Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, God's Trombones, Grand Park, Hemming Park, Invisible empire, Jacksonville Woman's Club, James Weldon Johnson, James Weldon Johnson Jacksonville, James Weldon Johnson Park, jax psycho geo, John Morine, July Perry, Ku Klux Klan, Law and Order Ku Klux Klan, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Lost Cause Movement, Ocoee Massacre, Paul Ortiz, Perry Massacre, R.E. Merritt, Rosewood Massacre, Seattle Union Record, St. James Building, Tim Gilmore, Victoria Woodhull, W.A. Hobson, Walter F. White, Walter White Jacksonville, William Washington Larsen Georgia
New Story: Chaseville “Colored Settlement” / Fort Caroline Club Estates
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Tagged Albert Sammis, Bruce Mouser, Brutus and Cain Bolton, Cary Wintz, Charles McNeill, Chaseville, Chaseville Colored Settlement, Clarence B. Moore, Daniel Dustin Hanson, Eartha White, Edidin Drive, Elizabeth Coffee, Fort Carolina Club Estates, Fort Caroline Elementary School, Fort Caroline Road, Geodesica, George Edwin Taylor, Gilbert Spindel, Hansontown, Heidi Road, Horseshoe Landing, Jacksonville Florida, Joel McEachin, John C. Christian, Kaden Drive, Kingsley Plantation, LaVilla, Lonnie Wurn, Marian Tillinghast Taylor, Marlene Sokol, Matt Soergel, Mill Cove Complex, Mount Olive Cemetery Green Cove Springs, National Liberty Party, New Castle Creek, Oakland Jacksonville, Old Chaseville Road, Reddie Point, Rogero Road, Roundhouse, Samuel Chase, Ted Edidin, Tim Gilmore, Timucuan Indians, United States Colored Troops, University Boulevard, William Marple, William Reddy
Where the Jacksonville Woman’s Club Stood
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Tagged 1816 Avondale Circle, 1901-1919: A New South City, Abigail Adams, Ada Cummer, Arthur Cummer, Benvenuto, Clara White Mission, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Dorothy Mortensen, Eartha White, George Hallam, Great Fire of 1901, Grover Cleveland, Hope McMath, J.C. Greeley, Jacksonville after the Fire, Jacksonville Junior College, Jacksonville Woman's Club, James Crooks, Jim Crooks, Jim Draper, Jimmy Wilson, John Adams, Jonathan C. Greeley, Jonathan Greeley, Kent Campus, Ladies' Friday Musicale, Lori Ann Whittington, Mellen C. Greeley, Mellen Clark Greeley, Mellen Greeley, Ninah Cummer, quadruple amputee, Riverside Avondale Preservation, Riverside Remembered, Robert Meyer Hotel, Sub-Tropical Exposition, Thomas Jefferson, Tudor Revival, Tudor Room, Waldo Cummer, Wayne Wood, Wellington Cummer, wister
Kimberly Daniels’ Lunatic Politics Owes Much to her Father’s Legacy
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Tagged A.G. Gancarski, Andrew Perkins, Andrew Preston Perkins, Clara White Mission, Coen Bros, Cohen Brothers, Eartha White, Eddie Allen, exorcism, Gary Chartrand, Halloween, Jacksonville City Council, jaxpsychogeo, Kimberly Daniels, LaVilla, LGBTQ, Perk, Perk and Loretta's Soul Lounge, Perk's, Peter Rummell, Tim Gilmore
When Jax Declared Its Center a “Slum Heart,” ‘Evil,” and Demanded Exorcism
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The deep baritone drips with condescension, festers with open sarcasm.
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Tagged Alexander Crosby, Bender Cawthon, Black Bottom, Blodgett, Brentwood, Brooklyn, Durkeeville, Eartha White, Federal Housing Authority, Florida Theatre, Hansontown, Jack Spottswood, Jacksonville Housing Authority, jaxpsychogeo, LaVilla, Mollie Chapman, Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Nasrallah Building, Negro Advisory Council, One Bad Apple, Slum Heart of Jacksonville, slumlords, Springfield, State Board of Health Building, Tim Gilmore
Confederate Park’s “In Memory of our Women of the Southland”
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Hansontown Lies Beneath FSCJ’s Downtown Campus
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Tagged Bethel Baptist Church, Camilla Thompson, Central Grammar and High School, Clara White, Clara White Mission, Cynthia Bioteau, Daniel Dustin Hanson, Douglas Anderson, Downtown Campus, Durkeeville, Eartha White, Ed Napier, FCCJ, FJC, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Florida Junior College, Florida StarSt. Joseph Missionary Baptist Church, Florida State College at Jacksonville, FSCJ, FSCJ Archive, Hansontown, Henry John Klutho, Jennifer Grey, Joseph Augustus Baldwin, LaVilla, Orange Street, Springfield, Sugar Hill, Sugar Underwood, U.S. Colored Troops