Catholic school for city's Black students.
In September of 1883, they established a "select" school for Black children on the third floor of the Sisters of Mercy’s former convent. This school was referred to...
One of the first Catholic orders to educate Black people after the Civil War.
The Sisters of St. Joseph were called back to St. Benedict the Moor Schoolhouse. They saw beyond the rubble and envisioned the possibilities of returning St. Benedi...
Founded in 1873.
This treaty between the United States of America and Spain transferred ownership of East and West Florida to the U.S...
After evacuating the residents of the Fort Mose to the Castillo de San Marcos, Captain Francisco Menendez and his militia fight the army of General James Oglethorpe...
The Treaty of Paris trades Havana for St. Augustine, marking the start of the British Period of St. Augustine's history."Great Britain claim Florida through the trea...
Secessionists in Charleston, South Carolina attack federal troops who still occupy Fort Sumter, which is an island fort in the Charleston Harbor. This was the first...
A month before Abraham Lincoln would be sworn in as President, eleven southern states band together to form a new country. These rebel states were (in order of seces...
According to Florida Atlantic University, Florida enacted 19 segregation laws between the years of 1865 and 1967. Florida was also known for enforcing especially har...
In return for Spain's military support during the American Revolutionary War, the newly formed United States of America returned the peninsula of Florida to Spanish...
During an 'as usual' day of picketing for youth demonstrators in St. Augustine, sixteen teenagers were arrested at four different lunch counters in the city. Among t...
What was the Stono Rebellion? Discover a South Carolina Freedom Struggle
St. Augustine’s first professional Black photographer.
Prominent local activists and public figures.
Greenspace honoring local heroes.
Recruiting office for the U.S. Colored Troops opens in Fort Marion, which had been reclaimed by the Union Army...
Inspired by the wealth of knowledge in material culture, Charleston archaeologists explore African American history.
Union forces take St. Augustine and many of Florida's coastal cities and free many Black people who were enslaved there. Federal troops reclaim the Saint Francis Bar...
Local WWII patriot and Civil Rights activist.
Outdoor exhibit commemorating Civil Rights.
A significant historic community.
Site of student-led sit-in protests.
Counsel to Seminole Chief Micanopy.
