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A portrait of James Barnes. James currently serves as the Chief Customer Operations Officer for the City of Tallahassee. He is also a veteran of the United States Army, Military Intelligence Division, as well as the National Urban League, 100 Black Men, and the NAACP.
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A portrait of Elaine W. Bryant. Bryant is currently the CEO of EW Bryant Associates, a consulting training firm. In 2018, she was appointed as City Commissioner. She has also worked for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership.
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A portrait of Joyce Hobson-Simmons from 1994. She had an extensive career in education, was elected to the Board of Education for the Martin County School District, and served on numerous boards and committees thereafter. She moved to Tallahassee to begin working as the Director of Administration for the Florida Department of Education under Frank Brogan. She remained with the department for several years until she retired.
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A portrait of Michael R. Moore. He was formerly an executive assistant and a deputy staff director for the Office of U.S. Congressman Don Fuqua between 1976 and 1986. He also served with the Florida Department of Labor from 1991 to 2000, held several positions with the Florida Department of Education from 2000 to 2006, worked for the school board as the director of student transportation from 2007 to 2018, and is currently also a pastor at the Powerhouse Church.
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A picture of Doris and Harold Clack. Harold owned and managed the Artistic Barbershop in Frenchtown, where he was known to all as "Papa" Clack. Doris was a librarian and expert on cataloging and classification. She was a professor of library science at Florida State University for 23 years and did extensive scholarly work on the library classification of Black studies. With her husband, they gave back to their community through their church, Frontiers International, the Frenchtown Area Development Authority, and their support of numerous FAMU programs and initiatives.
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Photograph of community leader, Society Warren, from the 1940s.
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A photograph of community leader, Gloria Anderson. She is a graduate of the Old Lincoln High School and received up to an MS degree in Adult and Community Education from Florida A&M University. She started her career as a secretary at FAMU in 1970, and later left employment at FAMU to accept a position with the City of Tallahassee. She retired from her position as the Director of the City’s Smith-Williams Service Center after 18 ½ years of service. Throughout her career, she was also a devoted activist in the Tallahassee Civil Rights movement.
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A picture of Albert Cofield, Sr., the father of Johnny Cofield and the husband of Mary “Chippie” Murray Cofield. Albert and Mary were tenants at the Ayavalla Plantation. They and their fifteen children lived at two sites on the plantation. The first was near the lake next to John Austin, and the second was “in back of” Poplar Springs Church. Besides working the acreage and doing seasonal work for John H. Phipps, Albert also worked for the W.P.A.
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A picture of Reggie Davis as a child in front of an open car door. The Davis family owned and operated a laundry at the corner of Brevard and Dean Street.
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A picture of Bennie Greer, youth P.Y., laying on the grass in front of a home.
