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Paul Laurence Dunbar at James Weldon Johnson’s Home in Jacksonville

Posted on December 1, 2023 | Leave a comment

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Harlem Renaissance figure — poet, novelist, journalist, ambassador and activist — James Weldon Johnson lived right here when he wrote the words to the Black National Anthem. His late-night debates with house-guest Paul Laurence Dunbar, just after Dunbar marched in President McKinley’s inaugural parade, helped make Johnson the writer he’d become.

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Vote, 2020, against the Terrorist Tactics of 1920

Posted on September 13, 2020 | Leave a comment

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It’s been 100 years. Since women got the right to vote. Since Eartha White ran that registration drive. Since the Ku Klux Klan marched in intimidation parades all over Florida. Tiny Eartha White stood up against a terrorist giant. Klan members hid behind patriotism and appeals to “law and order.” Local newspapers wrote of the Klan with reverence and mystery. Across Florida, people died for wanting to vote. Across the United States, people wrote of what happened in Jacksonville. If you find yourself intimidated this election year, think of Eartha White. This story ends on an up note. Click below for it.

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Republication National Convention in Jacksonville

Posted on July 24, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Here’s the weird saga of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, a city plagued with perennial low self esteem and strange sitcom jokes, the story of how a mayor and a governor attempted to trade a city for scrap, how a city resisted an invasion and won, how a city started to see itself and realized it was, already, a real town. Didn’t it? It’s time it did.

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