Volusia’s Past: A Reprise of This Blog’s First 6 Months
3 Women on a Volusia Outing in the 1800’s (State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/31486) For this history “blog” …
Category Archives: African-American History
Zora Neale Hurston: An African American Novelist’s Life in Daytona Beach
Zora Neale Hurston, 1938 and unknown date. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/17244. Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/33048. Photographer: Carl …
Early Daytona’s Forgotten African American Communities–Waycross, Newtown, Midway, and Silver Hill
State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/140709 (Young African American Girl Standing on a Daytona Street in 1908) When I …
Daytona’s Most Famous, Forgotten Man–Howard Thurman
State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/910 Daytona produced a man whose fame was recognized by Look Magazine in 1953 …
Freemanville–the Past 60 Years, Its Canals and Cemetery
(Double-click on the photo to see a better image of the rusty cast iron hand pump in the woods by …
Freemanville, Volusia’s 1st African-American Community
Freemanville, the site of the first African-American community in Volusia County, remains generally unknown, but once a year those who …
Gethsemane Cemetery (African-American Cemetery), Ormond Beach
Christian roots run deep, and when Ormond was still young some of the African-Americans of the area wanted their burial …
