Charles Avenue Historic District Marker

The first black community on the south Florida mainland began here in the 1880s when blacks from the Bahamas and southern U.S. came to farm the land or to work at the Peacock Inn, the first hotel in the Miami ...

The Ely Educational Museum

Pompano's first black history museum is located in the former home of Blanche Ely, a local educator and civic pioneer in Pompano Beach's African American community.

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The Old Dillard High School

This Masonry Vernacular structure, one of the oldest buildings in the city, was built in 1924. It was the first black school in Fort Lauderdale and named in honor of James H. Dillard, a philanthropist, educator and promoter of education ...

James F. Sistrunk Blvd Historical Marker at Von Mizell Library

Dr. James F. Sistrunk was the first black medical doctor to practice in Ft. Lauderdale and the only one for almost 16 years. With his partner, Dr. Von Mizell, Dr. Sistrunk solicited financing for Provident Hospital, which opened in 1938 ...

The African American Research Library and Cultural Center

This library, research facility, and cultural center contains 75,000 books, documents and artifacts by and about people of African descent, a community cultural center, a 300 seat auditorium, meeting rooms, exhibit areas, a historic archive, a viewing and listening center ...

The Colored Beach

In the early 1950s the northern tip of what is today John U. Lloyd Beach State Park was purchased by the Broward County Commission for use as the Colored Beach. Beachgoers took a ferry to reach the beach until a ...

The Leonard Reid Home (Private)

A one-story frame vernacular building completed in 1926, the Leonard Reid home was originally located on Coconut Avenue. A highly respected African American pioneer of early Sarasota, Reid helped establish Sarasota's first black community, Overtown. Working for a fish merchant ...

The Johnson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church

The only remaining rural church in southern Sarasota County dating from the 1910s, Johnson Chapel was built as the Osprey Missionary Baptist Church in 1915 on the west side of the Tamiami Trail in Osprey, six miles north of Laurel, ...

Grover and Pearl Koons House

The Florida Academy of African American Culture is located in this house that was occupied by Grover and Pearl Koons between 1927 and 1930. The house is an excellent example of a Mediterranean Revival style bungalow.

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Family Heritage House Museum

A resource for the study of African American achievements, this extensive black history library of books, newspaper clippings, magazines, photographs and audio cassettes represents over 50 years in the cultural and economic life of African Americans.

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