Construction was completed on the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. Don Miguel O'Reilly served as the first parish priest of the new church...
The most prominent Black Seminole leader.
This federal act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race. Black people were granted equal access to public resources...
The House of Representatives created a judiciary committee to hear proposals for federal civil rights legislation. Over the course of the summer, the representatives...
Troops who were stationed in Fort Marion under the Confederacy are ordered to withdraw from St. Augustine. For a few days, the city was empty of military forces...
Juan Ponce de Leon lands in La Florida and claims the land for Spain. Within his party is Juan Garrido, who is thought to be the first free Black person in the Ameri...
Writer, abolitionist, and political leader.
America's most arrested rabbi.
Lincolnville hub during Civil Rights Movement.
An epidemic kills many of the paid Indigenous workers constructing the Castillo de San Marcos. Thirty enslaved African people were purchased from Havana, Cuba...
One of the city's oldest structures.
"Florida governor Antonio de Benavides establishes the first African American slave militia."Source: National Park Service...
Martha B. Aikens is hired as the Castillo de San Marcos Superintendent. She was the first Black person to hold this position and said people had a "wait and see" att...
"Eleven enslaved Africans – eight men, two women and a nursing child – escape from the Carolinas and arrive in St. Augustine. Governor Quiroga grants their request f...
Source: National Park Service...
The American Statehood Period begins...
With the signing of the Adam-Onís Treaty, Florida went from a Spanish colony to an American territory. To Americans, this opened up what had been an international so...
This law enforced racial segregation in schools by prohibiting White teachers from instructing Black students. It targeted schools like St. Cecelia's (St. Benedict t...
Florida Normal and Industrial Institute (now known at Florida Memorial University) moves to St. Augustine from Jacksonville.
Historically Black College that once stood in St. Augustine.
Confederate troops occupy Fort Marion (now Castillo de San Marcos). The White citizens of St. Augustine were generally supportive of this change of government, excep...
Dedicated to honoring the local activists who were the driving force in St. Augustine's Civil Rights Movement, this bronze monument stands in St. Augustine's Plaza d...
The National Parks Service's official guide to Fort Matanzas National Monument.
The original destination of the Underground Railroad.
Twelve years after the original settlment was destroyed, Fort Mose is rebuilt near the site of the original community. Many African-descended residents are ordered t...
Fort Mose Historic State Park is added to the National Register of Historic Places...
