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Portrait of Harry Speights in uniform during the First World War. Harry Speights was born on November 1st, 1904.
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Photograph of Katherine Nickelson Speights at 93 years old. She was born in 1904 and grew up in the Buck Lake and Chaires communities of Leon County, Florida. She attended Greenhowe, a black one-room schoolhouse on Old Saint Augustine Road.
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Photograph of Katherine Nickelson Speights at 3 years old. She was born in 1904 and grew up in the Buck Lake and Chaires communities of Leon County, Florida. She attended Greenhowe, a black one-room schoolhouse on Old Saint Augustine Road.
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Photograph of Mary Speed at a family gathering. Mary was married to Deacon Cornelius Speed, Sr.. The Speeds were devoted members of Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida. The church itself was founded in 1898 by Reverend Virgil Speed, who built it and served as its first pastor.
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Photo of Catherine Ross in graduation regalia.
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Portrait of Reverend Kimball W. Thomas.
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Portrait of John Fitz, the first principal of Riley Elementary School.
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Portrait of Reverend Bernyce Clausell, a pastor and community activist who succeeded her husband, Rev. Dr. James Aaron Clausell, as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, which they founded in 1958.
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Bishop Nesbitt and his wife.
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Portrait of Elder Stennis Watson, a pastor at Watson Temple Church of God in Christ from 1935 to 1940. Watson successfully led the church's efforts to obtain land for a larger space on the corner of Georgia and Dewey Streets, in the Frenchtown neighborhood of Tallahassee, Florida.
