| s1048_b001_01 | Constitution of the State of Florida, 1868 | Text | Constitutional history -- Florida
Constitutional law -- Florida
Public law
Constitutions
Florida -- Politics and government
Florida -- Constitutional Convention -- (1868)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Florida
Constitutional Convention (Tallahassee, Fla. : 1868) | /fmp/constitutions/thumbnails/s1048_b001_01.jpg |
Constitution of the State of Florida, 1868
- Date
- 1868-02-25
- Description
- The Constitution of 1868 returning civilian control of the state following the American Civil War (1861-1865). It enfranchised black males and required each voter to take an oath of loyalty to the state of Florida and the United States government.
- Collection
| s539_b001_01 | Constitution of the State of Florida, 1885 | Text | Constitutional history -- Florida
Constitutional law -- Florida
Public law
Constitutions
Florida--Politics and government
Florida -- Constitutional Convention -- (1885)
Constitutional Convention (Tallahassee, Fla. : 1885) | /fmp/constitutions/thumbnails/s539_b001_01.jpg |
Constitution of the State of Florida, 1885
- Date
- 1885-08-03
- Description
- The Constitution of 1885 reversing some of the aspects of the 1868 Florida Constitution. This constitution established the makeup of the state government that continued until 1968.
- Collection
| Fieldwork images from the Florida Home Radio Project | Fieldwork images from the Florida Home Radio Project | Still Image | Pianists
Basket maker
Fieldwork
African Americans
Medicine shows
Women jazz musicians
Singers
Basket making
Entertainers
Basketry
Baskets
Choirs (music)
Mailboxes
Choruses
Jazz musicians
Performers
Trombonists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Fieldwork images from the Florida Home Radio Project
- Date
- 1981-11-05
- Description
- One proof sheet with 34 black and white images (plus negatives). Various images of Florida Radio Project. Image 1 is Ida Goodson in her kitchen (Pensacola). Images 2-10 are Goodson signing with the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Choir (Pensacola). Image 11 is of trombonist Jimmy Cox being interviewed in his home in Pensacola. Images 12 through 28 are of Dewey Martin making baskets at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival in Pensacola. Images 29-34 are of Medicine show performer Art (Doc) Miller and his wife beside their mail box in Starke, Florida.
- Collection
| wpa_county_history_leon_01 | Historical Sketch of Leon County | Text | Cities and towns--History
Florida--Leon County
Apalachee Indians
Works Progress Administration, Historical Records Survey | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/wpa_county_histories.jpg |
Historical Sketch of Leon County
- Date
- 1941-12
- Description
- Brief history of Leon County, Florida collected by the Works Progress Administration's Historical Records Survey.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-033 | Interview with blues singer Mary McClain | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
African Americans
Music business
Blues (Music)
Performing arts
Singing
Religion
Christianity
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Traveling theater
Minstrel shows
Family history
Performers
Blues singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with blues singer Mary McClain
- Date
- 1982-08-05
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Known as Diamond Teeth Mary for the jewels she placed in her teeth in the 1940s, Mary was born in West Virginia, and always claimed to be the half sister of fellow blues singer Bessie Smith. In 1918, she moved to Florida's Gulf Coast. During her later years, she lived in Bradenton, Florida. Although McClain was a popular performer in the 1920s and 1930s, she stopped performing the blues for many years. She was rediscovered by the Florida Folklife Program in the 1980s. In 1986, she won the Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1986. She died on 4 April 2000. In the interview, she discusses the start of her career; blues music; various groups she performed with; performing with George Burns, Bessie Smith, and Sarah Vaughan; minstrel shows; her family history; her conversion to Christianity in 1962; and her work in churches. Copied on audiocassettes C83-24 and C83-25. Material used for the public radio program, Florida Home: I Started With the Blues. Copies of the programs can be found on C85-16.
- Collection
| s414_b953_031194_tape003 | Jason McElveen interview with Cedar Key Historical Society heard by Florida Legislative Special Master for House Bill 591 (Rosewood Bill), circa 1980 | sound | Witnesses
Legislative hearings
Reparation (Criminal justice)
Massacres
African Americans
Interviews | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jason McElveen interview with Cedar Key Historical Society heard by Florida Legislative Special Master for House Bill 591 (Rosewood Bill), circa 1980
- Date
- 1980 (circa)
- Description
- James McElveen was an armed member of the mob in the 1923 Rosewood massacre. McElveen describes what he saw and heard during the week of the massacre. McElveen says that he was a resident of Sumner at the time. An unknown woman, also a former resident of Sumner, describes the events that she saw and heard during the week of the massacre. She also recalls that the man who shot Sam Carter was from Chiefland. The witness then describes the violent confrontation that occured at the Carrier home. The witness further describes the murder of Lexie Gordon, a Rosewood resident who lived several houses down from the Carrier home that was under seige. She then explains that the exact geographic location of Rosewood. This unknown woman also describes the location of the Rosewood Baptist Church that existed during the massacre and its juxtaposition to one of the main graveyards used by black members of the Rosewood community prior to the massacre.
- Collection
| slf_wpachurch_2779 | Mount Erie Missionary Baptist Church | Text | Florida Historical Records Survey
Work Projects Administration
Florida -- Churches
Florida -- Church records -- Inventories, registers, catalogs.
Church buildings -- Florida | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/church_record.jpg |
Mount Erie Missionary Baptist Church
- Date
- 1890
- Description
- WPA Church Record for Mount Erie Missionary Baptist Church in Gulf Hammock, Levy County, established in 1890. This Missionary Baptist church served a mainly African-American congregation, and was pastored at the time of the survey by L.J. Jackson.
- Collection
| slf_wpachurch_2780 | Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church | Text | Florida Historical Records Survey
Work Projects Administration
Florida -- Churches
Florida -- Church records -- Inventories, registers, catalogs.
Church buildings -- Florida | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/church_record.jpg |
Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Date
- 1927
- Description
- WPA Church Record for Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church in Gulf Hammock, Levy County, established in 1927. This African Methodist Episcopal church served a mainly African-American congregation, and was pastored at the time of the survey by D.A. Gibbs.
- Collection
| s1725_b001_f01_01 | "My Recollections of the Confederate War" by Sylvanus M. Hankins, ca. 1900 | Text | American Civil War--letters and diaries
American Civil War--United States--Collected correspondence
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Natural Bridge (Fla.), Battle of, 1865
Civil war
Civil War, 1861-1865 | /FMP/selected_documents/thumbnails/s1725_b001_f01_01.jpg |
"My Recollections of the Confederate War" by Sylvanus M. Hankins, ca. 1900
- Date
- 1900 (circa)
- Description
- Sylvanus M. Hankins' recollections of his experiences as an enlisted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War in Florida. Hankins was a private in Company D of the 1st Florida Reserve Regiment for the Confederacy which was one of the units that fought at the Battle of Natural Bridge in March 1865. Hankins begins by discussing Florida's secession in 1861, when Hankins was 14 years old. He recalls how Floridians intially reacted to the threat of war; the raising of military units; the death of his cousin resulting from combat wounds and imprisonment; the imprisonment of women and children and the burning of their homes if their husbands, fathers or brothers were suspected of deserting; the shooting of deserters; the wartime treatment of African-Americans; Hankins' enlistment at age 16; escorting prisoners to Andersonville; the Battle of Natural Bridge; and other wartime events. The date of these recollections is unknown.
- Collection
| The Apalachicola Timber Boom and the Rise of a Black Floridian Working Class | The Apalachicola Timber Boom and the Rise of a Black Floridian Working Class | Text | | /fpc/dln/dln004038.jpg |
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