Historic District founded by freed people in 1866.
First Public school for Black students in the city.
Site of the city's founding, now a religious pilgrimage site.
Historic Black cemeteries dating back to the 1800s.
Christopher Columbus sets sail for "the New World," beginning the imperial era of Spain. This conquest was ordered by Isabella I, Queen of Castile. Columbus came ash...
Three nuns from the Order of St. Joseph are arrested for teaching Black students.
The original 8 eight Sisters of St. Joseph of Saint Augustine arrived in Florida. Their original mission was to teach the city's Black children. Their Order has been...
The judge declared the Sisters of St. Joseph innocent. He ruled the law unconstitutional because it violated citizens' equal rights and privileges. He clarified that...
Because the house was in disrepair, the nuns taught Black children on the surrounding properties, under the orange groves that once lined Aviles Street...
150 students from Richard J. Murray High School held a peaceful protest against segregation at the Hotel Ponce de Leon, now Flagler College. Police were called, and...
Dedicated to honoring the local activists in St. Augustine's Civil Rights Movement.
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.
Founded in 1873.
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...
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...
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...
St. Augustine’s first professional Black photographer.
Prominent local activists and public figures.
Greenspace honoring local heroes.
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.
Enslaved woman who lived during the Second Spanish Period.
Built in 1798, revived in 1939.
