"Tutitive Dare & Tactical Drive To Forge Ahead"
He was the son of Israel McDuffy and his wife Rebecca English. Little is known of his early life or how he got to Florida at some point before 1896. He then rented a farm in Marion County, and after a time purchased one there, comprising about Eight hundred acres, on which he had made Read More…
First African American Physician in Ocala, Florida Dr. Thomas Playfair Lloyd was the first African American doctor in Ocala. Suwannee County native Thomas P. Lloyd practiced medicine in Ocala from 1889 until his death in 1896. Dr. Thomas P. Lloyd was born May 18, 1868 in Live Oak, Florida. He graduated from the Leonard Medical Read More…
Tamari Davis (center) poses with her world championships medal, with her mother, Tamara Davis (left) and grandmother Shirlane Able. (Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira/WUFT News) Four words follow Tamari Davis from her hometown of Gainesville, Florida, to the world stage in Budapest: On your marks. Set. In the time it takes to tie a shoelace, she Read More…
Dear Friends of Marion County Black History Museum, I hope everyone is doing well. Why hasn’t there been a consistent sustained effort to get a black school historical marker for Howard Academy? Howard Academy was opened in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Bureau. At this time, only American National Thrift Association Hospital and Paradise Park at Silver Springs have Read More…
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