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Images of a parade proceeding through an African American community in Leon County. Some of the images feature a marching band and dancers.
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Pictures of the Strong & Jones Funeral Home, Inc. in Frenchtown, Tallahassee. This funeral home is well-known for assisting African Americans during segregation, particularly in the 1960s, when they used funeral hearses as ambulances for the African American community.
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Two pictures of the Twilight Inn, located on 612 West Madison Street in Tallahassee. Both pictures show people dining at the Inn, with the first image featuring the Crawfords.
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Images of the University Pit Stop in Tallahassee formerly owned by the Jones Family. It was located on Osceola and Wahnish Way.
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Pictures of the building that formerly housed Ship Ahoy on the corner of South Adams and Palmer Avenue in Tallahassee, Florida. Ship Ahoy was an African American-owned restaurant that became a hangout for FAMU students.
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Two pictures of the Gardner property, located on Macomb and Carolina Streets in Tallahassee, Florida. After the Civil War, George Madison "Mack" Gardner and his wife, Annie Floyd Gardner, moved to Leon County, bought a lot and a house in Frenchtown, and bought land on the Northeast shore of Lake Jackson, in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Pictures of Bennie Tompkins' dentist office, located on Adams Street in Tallahassee.
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Images of the Walker-Ford Community Center in Tallahassee (Fla.), named after James R. Ford, Tallahassee's first African American mayor, and the first African American mayor of a capital city in the United States. The center mainly provides the Southside community in Tallahassee with recreational activities.
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Pictures of the Smith-Williams Service Center in Tallahassee (Fla.), which was named in honor of Elder Owen Smith and Mrs. Lucile Williams. These images capture the annex of the neighborhood facility, which provides services to citizens of the Greater Bond and Southside Communities in Tallahassee.
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A picture of a May Day celebration in 1946. May 20th is the official Emancipation date in Florida. This image shows children dancing in a circle with other attendants in the background.
