Here is a remarkable Black history tidbit to share far and wide. Thelma Berlack Boozer 1906-2001 Thelma Berlack Boozer was the first black person to hold professional rank in a School of Journalism at a US university. The School of Journalism at Lincoln University in Missouri appointed her associate professor and acting director in 1942. Read More…
Friends of Marion County Black History Museum https://www.facebook.com/people/Friends-of-Marion-County-Black-History-Museum/61582691195796/ ARTICLE BELOW WAS PRINTED BY OCALA BANNER IN NOVEMBER 18, 2021 ‘The people’s museum’: Black History Museum of Marion County is open again in west Ocala Andy Fillmore The Black History Museum of Marion County at Howard Academy Community Center has reopened after a year-long closure due to the Read More…
FAYE ANNETTE GARY of Ocala, Florida, was elected MISS FAMU for the 1961-62 school year. Attached are just a few clippings of this Amazing SUPER Women! FAYE GARY | Distinguished University Professor https://case.edu/universityprofessor/past-recipients/faye-gary MISS FAMU Source: The Jacksonville Times-Union, Sun, Oct 08, 1961 p 2 QUEEN of the Orange Blossom Classic Source: The Miami Herald, Sat Dec 09, 1961 Read More…
Carmen Manor Motel, Ocala, Florida The Carmen Manor Motel, 1044 [South] West Broadway [Street], Ocala, FL 34471 [approximate location; no current 1000 block] was listed in the 1956 Green Book. Dr. Ernest Emerson Lamb owned and operated the Club Bali and the Carmen Manor Motel. The businesses were located next door to each other. Ernest Read More…
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…
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