| n2015-1_b001_f11_40 | Memorandum from CORE, Report of Lunch Counter Demonstrations, December 8, 1960 | text | Solidarity
Civil rights movements--Public opinion
African Americans--Civil rights--Philosophy | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f11_40.jpg |
| n2015-1_b003_f07_15 | Miami Interracial Action Institute Summary and Evaluation, 1959 | text | Race relations
Civil rights--Social aspects
Nonviolence
African Americans--Civil rights | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f07_15.jpg |
Miami Interracial Action Institute Summary and Evaluation, 1959
- Date
- 1959
- Description
- This report contains a summary of action at the institute written by Susan Boden. She writes about institute members testing Miami lunch counters, movie theaters and public transportation to see if African-American Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) members would be served. Sit-ins were held at Jackson Byron's department store and Grant's. In each instance, CORE members were not served. James R. Robinson of CORE wrote an evaluation of the institute which includes sections about the concept and aims of the institute; preparatory work; selections of participants; functioning of the institute; evaluations made by institute members, and conclusions and suggestions for future institutes.
- Collection
| n2015-1_b003_f16_10 | CORE-lator Newsletter, April 1960 | text | Race relations
Civil rights--Social aspects
Nonviolence | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f16_10.jpg |
CORE-lator Newsletter, April 1960
- Date
- 1960-04
- Description
- CORE-lator newsletter, number 81 outlining newly formed Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chapters across the United States, recent arrests and updates about CORE's work across the country. "Letter From A Jailed Student" was written by Tallahassee civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due while she was in jail with seven others for holding a sit-in at Woolworth's. She includes the names of the other jailed students and describes her experience in jail.
- Collection
| S278_b073_f05_03 | Telegram from Jessie Daniel Ames to Governor Sholtz, 1934 | text | Lynching
Florida. Office of the Governor
African Americans--Civil rights | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/s278_b073_f05_03.jpg |
| s923_b085_f02_01 | News Release Including Florida's Response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination, 1968 | text | Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Florida--Race relations
Civil rights movements
Riots--Florida--Tallahassee | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/s923_b085_f02_01.jpg |
News Release Including Florida's Response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination, 1968
- Date
- 1968-04-09
- Description
- News release describing how Floridians and other Americans responded to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and information about King's funeral and who was attending. There is also other Florida news about Governor Claude Kirk being sued by J. A. Maloney; Floridians fighting in the Vietnam War; a car accident along the Tamiami Trail; an arrest at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami; the murder of William Guffey of St. Louis; and Boca Raton police sergeant Robert Lynch being charged with embezzling money.
- Collection
| flc_387.1-j147_01 | Port of Jacksonville, 1930 | text | Ports--Jacksonville (Fla.)
Docks--Florida--Jacksonville
Harbors--Florida--Jacksonville | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/flc_387.1-j147_01.jpg |
Port of Jacksonville, 1930
- Date
- 1930
- Description
- A booklet issued by the Jacksonville Port Bureau and the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce describing the facilities and amenities available to potential businesses. Includes sections about the Port of Jacksonville; the commerce and harbor of Jacksonville; weather in the city; port administration; port customs and regulations; port facilities; port services and charges; information about loading and discharging vessels; fuel and supplies; steamship agents and brokers; and the railroads at the port.
- Collection
| flc_613.122-s967_01 | Suwannee Springs Water: The Healing Springs, 1905 | text | Tourism
Attractions
Health resorts
Mineral waters
Suwannee Springs (Fla.)--Description and travel
Endorsements in advertising-- Florida--Suwannee Springs
Springs--Florida--Suwannee Springs
Health resorts--Florida--Suwannee Springs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/flc_613.122-s967_01.jpg |
Suwannee Springs Water: The Healing Springs, 1905
- Date
- 1905-03-19
- Description
- A leaflet advertising the health resort at Suwannee Springs. The brochure lists various ailments said to be cured by the mineral springs, including rheumatism, gout, malaria, jaundice, female troubles, eczema and other afflictions. There are also testimonials from patrons and an analysis of the water at the springs.
- Collection
| flc_917.5-q3_01 | Florida and Havana: Queen and Crescent Route and Southern Railway, 1905 | text | Railroad trains
Railroad travel
Florida -- Description and travel
Florida -- Pictorial works | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/flc_917.5-q3_01.jpg |
Florida and Havana: Queen and Crescent Route and Southern Railway, 1905
- Date
- 1905
- Description
- A booklet describing what passengers would see as they traveled along the Queen and Crescent Route to Cuba and Nassau. The booklet includes detailed information about the American Civil War history of the stops along the route in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia; hotels where passengers could stay; attractions passengers could see in these cities; and images of both the hotels and the attractions. The end of the booklet describes the automatic electric block signal system used along the route and has the timetables for trains and steamships.
- Collection
| flc_975.9061-l811_01 | Move the State Capital to Jacksonville Pamphlet, 1900 | text | Capitals (Cities)
Capitols
City planning | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/flc_975.9061-l811_01.jpg |
| m76-139_b001_01 | Robert Watson Civil War Diary, 1861-1865 | text | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Civil war | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/m76-139_b001_01.jpg |
Robert Watson Civil War Diary, 1861-1865
- Date
- 1861 (circa)
- Description
- A typescript copy of a diary kept by Robert Watson of Key West from September 1861 through March 1865. Watson describes the movements of the 7th Florida Infantry Regiment from Key West around Florida and then to Tennessee. The diary includes descriptions of weather, news, meals, illnesses and deaths.
- Collection
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