Site of the city's founding, now a religious pilgrimage site.
In 1812 — about one year after the death of Francis Fatio, Sr. — New Switzerland Plantation was burned down.The Fatio family narrowly escaped the fire — an attack by...
Polyglot, Interpreter, Freedom-seeker.
Historic Black cemeteries dating back to the 1800s.
Supreme Court allows segregation laws, coining the infamous 'separate but equal' myth...
In a televised speech that is now infamous, President John F. Kennedy expressed that America was being faced with "a moral issue ... as old as the scriptures and as...
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Ray Charles begins his studies at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
The Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation is issued by President Lincoln. In order to rebuild the United States, Lincoln offered to forgive Confederates who swore...
Trailblazing physician, public servant.
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...
Florida makes it illegal for White teachers to teach at Black schools and vice versa.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a civil rights organization that was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and other Alabama activists. This was publi...
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...
King Charles II decrees that enslaved people under British control who seek sanctuary in Spanish territories will be given liberty, as long as they convert to Cathol...
Queen Regent Mariana of Spain orders Nueva España (or "New Spain," now Mexico) to pay for a stone fort to be built in San Augustin...
Dedicated to honoring the local activists in St. Augustine's Civil Rights Movement.
Following the 1964 Civil Rights Act, desegregation led to the closure of Black schools, including St. Benedict. Its brick schoolhouse fell into disrepair over the fo...
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.
