In commemoration of 60th Anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is timely to recall the critical role Florida played in the passage of Civil Rights legislation- specifically St Augustine which the epicenter of MLK Jr. and Southern Christian Leadership Council (SLC) activity during the Senate filibuster of the […]

The following is an excerpt from my book Florida and the American Revolution Following the British defeat at Yorktown, loyalists began flooding into East Florida. In 1782 alone, over 6,000 refugees fled to East Florida. The assumption in this period was that East Florida would remain part of the British Empire, even though West Florida […]