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The Florida Civil Rights Museum, Inc.℠ (FCRM) is pleased to present a first of its kind, Florida Civil Rights and Education Heritage Trail, which is designed to showcase various individuals and historical sites of significance to the state. The FCRM will produce multiple volumes, which will be distributed statewide. The purpose of the FCRM’s Florida Civil Rights and Education Heritage Trail is to instruct, inspire and motivate the next generation of community leaders and educators. Many of the pioneers who are profiled, all deceased, have been lost to history. It is the unique goal of the museum to engage the youth and everyday citizens in the effort to restore to memory, the courageous and necessary actions taken to ensure that fairness was prevalent in institutions across all economic strata, and that all people were given the opportunity to thrive and succeed in whatever endeavors they aspired to.
The Trail is designed to encourage tourism, as well as foster economic development, by highlighting notable places and people who fostered positive change in the areas of civil rights, education, politics, sports, medicine and religion. In some cases, historical markers will be placed at sites of significance by the FCRM, when granted permission by the property owner. This publication is also meant to instill pride in all Floridians, and to encourage them to learn more about the individuals who impacted not just their city or town, but about those who shaped other areas of the state as well.
The Florida Civil Rights and Education Heritage Trail was conceptualized and introduced to the Florida Civil Rights Museum, Inc.℠ by Delaitre J. Hollinger, who serves as the museum’s co-executive director, educator, lead researcher and chief curator. “I want all people to understand and know that they can accomplish any dream or goal that they may have with hard work, grit and determination,” Hollinger said. “I want them to know that there were individuals of all races, colors and creeds who brought about positive change by being productive members of our society. It is important especially for the young ones coming along, to know that they too can make a difference in the lives of others in their respective communities.”
Volume One of the Florida Civil Rights and Education Heritage Trail, released on June 28, 2025, during the FCRM’s “Live the Dream: Youth Excursion, Historic Immersion,” features thirty (30) places / individuals who originate from or accomplished their most significant work in one of the following counties:
- ALACHUA: A. Quinn Jones / A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center
1013 N.W. 7th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601 - BROWARD: Judge Thomas J. “T.J.” Reddick / Judge Thomas J. “T.J.” Reddick, Jr. North Building, Broward County Judicial Complex, 201 S.E. 6th St., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
- DUVAL: Cookman Institute / Rev. S. B. Darnell / Formerly located in Jacksonville, Florida
- DUVAL: Edward Waters University / Dock and Carrie Jordan
1658 Kings Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32209 - ESCAMBIA: Judge Winston Arnow / Winston E. Arnow United States Courthouse and Federal Building, 100 N. Palafox St., Pensacola, Florida 32502
- ESCAMBIA: Governor Reubin O’Donovan Askew / Reubin O’Donovan Askew Terminal, Pensacola International Airport, 222 W. Main St., Pensacola, FL 32502
- ESCAMBIA: Historic Bruce Beach, 601 W. Main St., Pensacola, FL 32502
- HILLSBOROUGH: Florida State Senator Helen Gordon Davis / Helen Gordon Davis Centre
305 S. Hyde Park Ave., Tampa, FL 33606 - HILLSBOROUGH: Rev. A. Leon Lowry / A. Leon Lowry Elementary School
11505 Country Hollow Dr., Tampa, FL 33635 - HILLSBOROUGH: The Jackson House, 851 E. Zack St., Tampa, FL 33602
- JEFFERSON: Robert Clemon “C.T.” Tillman and Sevilla Burney Tillman / Tillman Funeral Home (Original Location: 620 E. York St., Monticello, FL) / Present Location: 1215 N. Jefferson St., Monticello, FL 32344
- LEON: Governor LeRoy Collins / Call-Collins House at The Grove Museum, 902 N. Monroe St., Tallahassee, FL 32301 / LeRoy Collins Birthplace (now a law office), 725 E. Park Ave., Tallahassee, FL 32301
- LEON: Robert D. Perkins, Sr. and Trudie Chester Perkins / Robert and Trudie Perkins Way, Tallahassee, FL 32307
- LEON: E. Lilyan Spencer / Corner of FAMU Way and Eugenia St., Tallahassee, FL 32310
Former Home Site of E. Lilyan Spencer (now demolished), 825 W. Eugenia St. - LEON: Rev. R. N. Gooden / Saint Mary Primitive Baptist Church
454 W. Call St., Tallahassee, FL 32301 - LEON: Cecil Hill Walker / Gravesite: Historic Greenwood Cemetery
1601 Old Bainbridge Rd., Tallahassee, FL 32303 - MARION: Paradise Park / Historical Marker located at the intersection of Baseline Rd. (N.E. 58th Ave.) and N.E. 24th St., on the right when traveling north on Baseline Rd. (Park now closed)
- MIAMI-DADE: Representative Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry / Gwen Cherry Park
7090 N.W. 22nd Ave., Miami, FL 33147 - MIAMI-DADE: U.S. Representative Carrie Pittman Meek / The Carrie Meek Foundation
4000 N.W. 142nd St., Opa-locka, FL 33054 - MIAMI-DADE: U.S. Senator Claude Denson Pepper / Claude Pepper Park, 1255 N.W. 135th St., North Miami, FL 33168 / Claude Pepper Federal Building, 51 S.W. 1st Ave., Miami, FL 33130
- MIAMI-DADE: Miami City Commissioner M. Athalie Range / Athalie Range Park
525 N.W. 62nd St., Miami, FL 33150 - MIAMI-DADE: Annie Manning Coleman / Annie Coleman Homes (Now demolished)
- ORANGE: Historic Wells’Built Hotel / Wells’Built Museum of African-American History and Culture, The Association to Preserve African-American Society, History and Tradition, Inc.
511 W. South St., Orlando, FL 32805 - ORANGE: State Senator Geraldine F. Thompson / Wells’Built Museum
- PALM BEACH: Delray Beach Mayor Catherine E. Strong / Catherine Strong Splash Park
1500 S.W. 6th St., Delray Beach, FL 33444 - PINELLAS: U.S. Appeals Court Judge Joseph Woodrow Hatchett / Joseph Woodrow Hatchett United States Courthouse and Federal Building, 111 N. Adams St., Tallahassee, FL 32301
- PINELLAS: St. Petersburg City Councilwoman C. Bette Wimbish / C. Bette Wimbish Highway, (Interstate 375), North Bay Drive, St. Petersburg, FL
- PUTNAM: Florida Supreme Court Justice Richard W. Ervin, Jr.
- ST. JOHNS: Dr. Robert B. Hayling / Dr. Robert B. Hayling Freedom Park
698-592 Riberia St., St. Augustine, FL 32084 - VOLUSIA: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune / Bethune–Cookman University
640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114
