Two actors portraying servants from the past in the kitchen of the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum

Black History

St. Augustine has seen the African American experience from a very unique angle-from the first free black town to the final thrust for the Civil Rights Act. Racial struggles of the past have become dramatic victories of the present. In fact, some eyewitnesses of these events still live in St. Augustine today. Browse our stories and pictures. You're sure to find some interesting surprises.

Black History

This amendment granted Black people the right to vote in the United States. With its passing, seven Black men were elected to the Congress and the Senate. These men...

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White BG. Resilience St. Augustine logo is a brown bell encircled.

Resilience: Black Heritage in St. Augustine

Dark blue BG, white cursive text reading "la Florida (tm)"

The La Florida Project

Sepia line illustration. Three Timucua leaders in foreground. Groups of warriors in formation in background.

Pre-Colonial Period

Collage, yellow geometric background with Black Seminole Project logo (a bust of a Black man in Indigenous Seminole garb, looking directly at the camera).

Black Seminole Project

Red and white flag, burgundian saltire of Spain.

First Spanish Period

Union Jack flag

British Period

Red and yellow flag of Spain, bearing seal in middle left quadrant.

Second Spanish Period

American Flag circa 1821, 23 stars

American Territorial Period

B&W illustration. 8 soldiers man a cannon ball on the deck of a ship. Another ship in the distance.

American Civil War

B&W, an African American sharecropping man stands amongst corn stalks.

Reconstruction & Jim Crow Era

B&W a group of Black women display and discuss their quilts and crafts, which sit on their laps.

Arts & Culture

In the ankle deep water of St. Augustine Beach, activists (right) face off with segregationists on June 25 1964.

Civil Rights Movement

In the dark of night, reenactors at Matanzas Nat'l Monument light cannons that light up in a burst of fire.

Military History

Chimes at Robert B. Hayling Freedom Park

The Scott Street Eleven

B&W, three young Black women pose in front of a line of cars.

Women's History

Logo on white BG. Illustration of shaking hands, one Black, one White.

ACCORD Freedom Trail