31 items found
Collection ID is exactly "40" AND Subject contains "Segregation"
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Memo Regarding Segregated Bathroom Facilities at Florida Caverns, 1943

Memo Regarding Segregated Bathroom Facilities at Florida Caverns, 1943
Date
1943-05-25
Description
A memo from J. Clarence Simpson, superintendent at Florida Caverns State Park, regarding the increase in African-American attendence at Florida Caverns and the need for segregated bathroom facilities as a result. There is also a handwritten note, dated May 31, 1943, written by Director of State Parks Lewis Scoggin stating that Florida Caverns State Park should arrange for privies for now and plan for permanent facilities for African-Americans at a later date.
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Memo Regarding Segregated Bathroom Facilities at Florida Caverns, 1943

Memo Regarding Segregated Bathroom Facilities at Florida Caverns, 1943
Letter to Governor Spessard Holland from leaders of the Maddox Foundry & Machine Works, 1942

Letter to Governor Spessard Holland from leaders of the Maddox Foundry & Machine Works, 1942
Date
1942-08-20
Description
Letter from leaders of the Maddox Foundry & Machine Works in Archer, Florida to Governor Spessard Holland, commending him on his endorsement of Governor Frank M. Dixon's stance on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802. The order, signed by Roosevelt on June 25, 1941 to prevent racial discrimination in the nation's defense industries during World War II. The writers of this letter declare that the people of the South will never "submit" to coexisting on terms of equality with African Americans (here termed Negroes).
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Letter to Governor Spessard Holland from leaders of the Maddox Foundry & Machine Works, 1942

Letter to Governor Spessard Holland from leaders of the Maddox Foundry & Machine Works, 1942
Letter from the Mayor and Commissioners of Delray Beach to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding the Integration of Municipal Beach Facilities - May 26, 1956

Letter from the Mayor and Commissioners of Delray Beach to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding the Integration of Municipal Beach Facilities - May 26, 1956
Date
1956-05-26
Description
Letter from Mayor Mike Yargates and the City Commissioners of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, asking the governor to consider using state funds to purchase a minimum of 500 feet of beach frontage with which to build a segregated beach facility for African Americans. There had been, according to the city officials, an "effort of the negroes of our near communities to invade the Municipal Beach," and they believed the problem could be resolved if a separate and comparable facility was set aside by the state. The commissioners also thank Governor Collins for sending agents from his office to meet with them regarding the difficulties of integration.
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Letter from the Mayor and Commissioners of Delray Beach to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding the Integration of Municipal Beach Facilities - May 26, 1956

Letter from the Mayor and Commissioners of Delray Beach to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding the Integration of Municipal Beach Facilities - May 26, 1956
Letter from the Delray Beach Civic League to LeRoy Collins Regarding a Dispute over Segregated Beaches - June 25, 1956

Letter from the Delray Beach Civic League to LeRoy Collins Regarding a Dispute over Segregated Beaches - June 25, 1956
Date
1956-06-25
Description
Letter from the Delray Beach Civic League to Governor LeRoy Collins, asking him to intervene in a dispute between the City Commission of Delray Beach and the city's African American community regarding segregated beaches. The African American community had recently demanded equal access to the city's municipal beach, whereupon the city commission drafted a resolution to exclude the African American neighborhoods of Delray Beach from the city limits.
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Letter from the Delray Beach Civic League to LeRoy Collins Regarding a Dispute over Segregated Beaches - June 25, 1956

Letter from the Delray Beach Civic League to LeRoy Collins Regarding a Dispute over Segregated Beaches - June 25, 1956
Letter from John J. Blair to Judge Leo Luke Fabisinski Regarding Virgil Hawkins Case, June 12, 1956

Letter from John J. Blair to Judge Leo Luke Fabisinski Regarding Virgil Hawkins Case, June 12, 1956
Date
1956-06-12
Description
Letter from John J. Blair, a member of Governor LeRoy Collins' Advisory Committee on Race Relations, to Judge Leo Luke Fabisinski, another member of the committee. The letter provides a timeline of events in the case of Virgil Hawkins, an African American man seeking admission to the law school at the University of Florida, dating from Hawkins' original petition to the Supreme Court of Florida in 1949 through the hearing in 1956 in which the State Board of Control reported on how integration would affect Florida's institutions of higher learning.
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Letter from John J. Blair to Judge Leo Luke Fabisinski Regarding Virgil Hawkins Case, June 12, 1956

Letter from John J. Blair to Judge Leo Luke Fabisinski Regarding Virgil Hawkins Case, June 12, 1956
Letter from James A. Wright to Francis P. Whitehair Regarding Segregation and the New York Giants, June 12, 1956

Letter from James A. Wright to Francis P. Whitehair Regarding Segregation and the New York Giants, June 12, 1956
Date
1956-06-12
Description
Letter from private citizen James A. Wright to Francis Preston Whitehair calling his attention to the attitudes of several DeLand city council members toward the New York Giants building seasonal housing for both black and white members of their team and staff. Wright expresses his concern that the council members are willing to allow the project to move forward despite its violation of city ordinances prohibiting the mixing of the races in public spaces. Wright attaches several documents to the communication, including a copy of a newspaper article describing how another Giants farm club had handled the issue of segregation, a copy of a statement Wright made to the city commission regarding the Giants' proposed project in DeLand, a copy of the deed for the land where the Giants' project would be located, and the cover page where a city zoning ordinance was to be attached.
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Letter from James A. Wright to Francis P. Whitehair Regarding Segregation and the New York Giants, June 12, 1956

Letter from James A. Wright to Francis P. Whitehair Regarding Segregation and the New York Giants, June 12, 1956
Letter from Hendrik J. Berns to LeRoy Collins Regarding Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 23, 1956

Letter from Hendrik J. Berns to LeRoy Collins Regarding Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 23, 1956
Date
1956-06-23
Description
Letter from Miami Herald reporter Hendrik J. Berns to Governor LeRoy Collins, asking Collins to use his influence to calm the racial tensions prevailing at that time in Delray Beach in Palm Beach County. Berns notes that the situation had recently reached a crescendo in which the city commission had recently passed an ordinance to exclude the African American neighborhoods from the city limits.
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Letter from Hendrik J. Berns to LeRoy Collins Regarding Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 23, 1956

Letter from Hendrik J. Berns to LeRoy Collins Regarding Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 23, 1956
Letter from Catherine E. Strong, Vice-Mayor of Delray Beach, to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding Segregation at Public Beaches - July 3, 1956

Letter from Catherine E. Strong, Vice-Mayor of Delray Beach, to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding Segregation at Public Beaches - July 3, 1956
Date
1956-07-03
Description
Letter from Vice-Mayor Catherine E. Strong of Delray beach and Governor LeRoy Collins, describing the outcome of a dispute between city officials and local African American citizens over segregated beach and pool facilities. Strong reports that the city and African American citizens had reached an agreement to end the dispute.
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Letter from Catherine E. Strong, Vice-Mayor of Delray Beach, to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding Segregation at Public Beaches - July 3, 1956

Letter from Catherine E. Strong, Vice-Mayor of Delray Beach, to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding Segregation at Public Beaches - July 3, 1956
Letter from Catherine E. Strong to LeRoy Collins Describing Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 7, 1956

Letter from Catherine E. Strong to LeRoy Collins Describing Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 7, 1956
Date
1956-06-07
Description
City commissioner and vice-mayor Catherine E. Strong writes to Governor LeRoy Collins, relating the latest in a series of events stemming from a dispute between whites and African Americans living in Delray Beach. Following an attempt by African American citizens of Delray Beach to integrate the municipal beaches, four members of the city commission voted to remove the African American section of Delray Beach from the boundaries of the municipality, despite the fact that those neighborhoods were actually surrounded by other parts of the city. Strong describes the political situation in detail and asks Collins to veto any effort to exclude the African American neighborhoods from the limits of Delray Beach.
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Letter from Catherine E. Strong to LeRoy Collins Describing Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 7, 1956

Letter from Catherine E. Strong to LeRoy Collins Describing Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 7, 1956
Leon County School Board Integration and Student Transportation Plan with Maps, 1970

Leon County School Board Integration and Student Transportation Plan with Maps, 1970
Date
1970-02-06
Description
Series of maps drawn up by the Leon County School Board dividing the county into zones for the purpose of assigning students to schools. A cover letter explains the school board's new policy for assigning students to schools.
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Leon County School Board Integration and Student Transportation Plan with Maps, 1970

Leon County School Board Integration and Student Transportation Plan with Maps, 1970
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
s1352_b001_f24_x01Memo Regarding Segregated Bathroom Facilities at Florida Caverns, 1943TextCaves--Florida--Jackson County--Marianna
Parks--Florida--Jackson County--Marianna
Segregation		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/s1352_b001_f24_x01.jpg
s406_b066_f01_02Letter to Governor Spessard Holland from leaders of the Maddox Foundry & Machine Works, 1942TextSegregation
Sectionalism (United States)--Public opinion
Racism
Race relations		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s406_b066_f01_02.jpg
s776_b033_f05_08Letter from the Mayor and Commissioners of Delray Beach to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding the Integration of Municipal Beach Facilities - May 26, 1956TextSegregation/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s776_b033_f05_08.jpg
s776_b033_f05_24Letter from the Delray Beach Civic League to LeRoy Collins Regarding a Dispute over Segregated Beaches - June 25, 1956TextSegregation/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s776_b033_f05_24.jpg
s776_b033_f03_x05Letter from John J. Blair to Judge Leo Luke Fabisinski Regarding Virgil Hawkins Case, June 12, 1956TextSegregation
Segregation in education		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s776_b033_f03_x05.jpg
s776_b033_f03_x03Letter from James A. Wright to Francis P. Whitehair Regarding Segregation and the New York Giants, June 12, 1956TextPublic opinion
Segregation
Discrimination in sports		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s776_b033_f03_x03.jpg
s776_b033_f05_19Letter from Hendrik J. Berns to LeRoy Collins Regarding Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 23, 1956TextSegregation/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s776_b033_f05_19.jpg
s776_b033_f05_18Letter from Catherine E. Strong, Vice-Mayor of Delray Beach, to Governor LeRoy Collins Regarding Segregation at Public Beaches - July 3, 1956TextSegregation/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s776_b033_f05_18.jpg
s776_b033_f05_20Letter from Catherine E. Strong to LeRoy Collins Describing Racial Tensions in Delray Beach - June 7, 1956TextSegregation/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s776_b033_f05_20.jpg
n2015-6_b001_f16_01Leon County School Board Integration and Student Transportation Plan with Maps, 1970TextSchool integration
Segregation in education
African Americans--Segregation
Busing for school integration		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/n2015-6_b001_f16_01.jpg