Lincolnville Museum & Cultural Center
102 M L King Ave, St. Augustine, FL 32084
March 24, 2022
Located in Saint Augustine, the Lincolnville Museum & Cultural Center works to preserve and promote over 50 years of African American history through art, lectures, performances, and exhibits. The museum was once the first public black high school in Saint John's country in 1925 and later became a government office in the 1980s after desegregation. The museum opened in 2005.
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Artifact:
"Happy as the Day is Long"
William H. Jackson
Detroit Publishing Co. (c. 1902)
These three boys appear smiling in front of the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. The kids were pictured to portray the day of January 1, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation freed the enslaved of the Confederate states.
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Photograph
Debby Moore
Emmaline Maultsby, born in 1925 left St. Augustine, Florida for New York in hopes to realize her dreams of becoming a Jazz singer. Recorded the hits, “Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days” and “Nothin’ But Trouble on my Mind” under her stage name Debby Moore.
Image in Conversation:
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder is an American artist who became well known in the early 1960s. He became one of the most successful songwriters of his generation known for his innovative sound and creative use of instruments in his music. He also represented his activism in his work by producing and performing songs for charities that support homelessness, disabilities, domestic abuse, and other world issues.
Image in Conversation
Sit-ins
Sit-ins were a form of non-violent protest used in the 1960s to combat segregation. The movement started when four black students sat down at a lunch counter and were refused service. Although the students waited all night they were not served, the following day other students formed the protests. Sit-ins grew around the world By the end of the year more than 70,000 people participated in sit-ins where they would go to a segregated establishment and wait to be served.
English Passage:
Love in a Time of Climate Change
Craig Santos Perez
"I love you as one loves the last seed saved within a vault, gestating the heritage of our roots, and thanks to your body, the taste that ripens from its fruit still lives sweetly on my tongue."
This verse of Love in a Time of Climate Change reminded me a lot of the Lincolnville Museum. It is a place with decades of Black history that tells the story of Black people in Saint Augustine. If not for the students of Excelsior (former museum), and the people of Lincolnville the building would've been destroyed. Their protests gave future generations a chance to learn about Black history in Saint Augustine.
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