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Resilience: Black Heritage in St. Augustine

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Resilience: Black Heritage in St. Augustine

Short Description This collaborative project, supported by local archivists and museum professionals, was founded in 2020. Its mission is to "center the contributions the Black community has made and continues to make in St. Augustine's cultural identity." Their website contains a master file of learning resources.

Collage with red patterned background. Pencil portrait of a Black woman in Spanish colonial garb in the foreground.

Luisa de Abrego

First documented Christian bride in the United States.

Front porch of the ACCORD Museum at 79 Bridge Street.

ACCORD Museum

Florida's first Civil Rights museum.

This monument, made granite, bronze, and coquina, stretches over 25 ft of sidewalk in the Plaza de la Constitución.

Andrew Young Crossing

Commemorates the night of June 9, 1964.

Collage over a red textured background. An illustrated portrait of General Jorge Biassou, a Black man in a colonial hat and military uniform.

Jorge Biassou

Florida's first Black general.

Collage with red patterned background. B&W bust photo of Frank Butler in foreground.

Frank B. Butler

Entrepreneur and founder of historic Butler Beach.

B&W a group of young Black women pose in front of a building, mural and sign that reads "Butler's Beach, Bath House." An older couple leans out the window to smile for the camera.

Butler Beach

Resort founded during Jim Crow Era.

Illustration of a African American man in Seminole garb folding his hands at a table.

John Caesar

Leader during the Second Seminole War.

The Castillo de San Marcos looking north, with the Matanzas Bay to the right and the sea wall stretching through the foreground.

Castillo de San Marcos

Center of defense and heritage.

B&W illustration of a Black man dressed in Seminole garb.

John Cavallo

The most prominent Black Seminole leader.

B&W isolated portrait of Rabbi Israel Dresner photoshopped onto a patterened red background.

Rabbi Israel Dresner

America's most arrested rabbi.

A two story cement block building. Ground floor is painted bright purple, second story painted white. "ELKS" in all caps above the entrance.

Elks Rest

Lincolnville hub during Civil Rights Movement.

Father Miguel O'Reilly House Museum

One of the city's oldest structures.

Historical B&W, a male and female student stand under the archway of Florida Memorial College, circa 1930s.

Florida Memorial College

Historically Black College that once stood in St. Augustine.

Experience the untold history of the nation's oldest city.

Fort Mose Historic State Park

The original destination of the Underground Railroad.

A colored image of Dr. R. B. Hayling, circa 2014. He is an old Black man with white hair and perceptive eyes.

Dr. Robert B. Hayling

Leader of the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement.

Collage with red pattenred background. B&W bust of Zora Neale Hurston in foreground, she is smiling wide and has a drumstick in one hand.

Zora Neale Hurston

Anthropologist, author, preserver of memories.

The historical marker for the Lincolnville Historic District.

Lincolnville Neighborhood

Historic District founded by freed people in 1866.

A photograph of the exterior of 102 Martin Luther King Ave, the Excelsior High School. It is a beige building with two stories, surrounded by palm and oak trees.

Lincolnville Museum & Cultural Center

First Public school for Black students in the city.

An older Black man dressed in the garb of a 1700s Spanish Soldier standing in the green space of Fort Mose Historic State Park.

Francisco Menendez

Leader of the fort and town of Mose.

Vine-covered exterior of the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, a Spanish mission style building surrounded in Florida greenery.

National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche at Mission Nombre de Dios

Site of the city's founding, now a religious pilgrimage site.

View of the Pinehurst and San Sebastian Cemeteries. A variety of grave markers spread beneath palm, cedar, and oak trees.

Pinehurst and San Sebastian Cemeteries

Historic Black cemeteries dating back to the 1800s.

Collage with red patterned background. Foreground shows a sepia bust portrait of Dr. D.W. Roberts.

Dr. D.W. Roberts

Trailblazing physician, public servant.

Collage with red patterned background. Bronze scuplture with 4 busts and a coquina base.

Foot Soldiers Monument

Dedicated to honoring the local activists in St. Augustine's Civil Rights Movement.

St. Benedict Catholic School in the Lincolnville neighborhood, shot in 1922

St. Benedict the Moor Catholic School

Catholic school for city's Black students.

B&W, classroom of young Black students seated at desks, priest and Sister stand behind.

Sisters of St. Joseph

One of the first Catholic orders to educate Black people after the Civil War.

The interior of St. Paul AME Church, with the altar in the background and pews in the foreground.

St. Paul A.M.E. Church

Founded in 1873.

B&W portrait of Richard Twine, edited to add drop shadow.

Richard Aloysius Twine

St. Augustine’s first professional Black photographer.

Two B&W portraits collaged onto a red patterned background. Katherine Twine (left) and Henry Twine (right) are older Black people in formal clothes.

Henry & Kat Twine

Prominent local activists and public figures.

The shaded green space of Twine neighborhood Park in St. Augustine, FL on a sunny day. Twine Park historical marker is visible at the bottom of the image.

Twine Park

Greenspace honoring local heroes.

Barbara Vickers (an older Black woman wearing glasses) stands in front of the bronze monument to the St. Augustine Foot Soldiers.

Barbara Henry Vickers

Local WWII patriot and Civil Rights activist.