Sergeant Isaac Sawyer, Company C, 38th US Colored Infantry Isaac Sawyer (1842-1920) – Sergeant, Company C, 38th United States Colored Infantry Regiment. grave at Chestnut Cemetery. The 38th United States Colored Infantry was an African American unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Sgt Sawyer is listed in rosters of the 38th Read More…
Editor’s Note: Written and compiled by Alonzo Hardy Dr. Thomas Playfair Lloyd (1868-1896) was the city’s first black doctor. He graduated from Leonard Medical School of Shaw University, where he delivered the salutatory address for the class of 1889. He won the Knox prize. Born in 1868 to Thomas and Louisa Lloyd, Lloyd graduated Leonard Read More…
A wall in Juanita Cunningham’s northwest Ocala home recognizes her devotion and service to a community in which, six decades earlier, she was not allowed to use the same public restrooms as white women. At the time, Jim Crow laws required African-Americans in many cases to use separate restrooms, water fountains and entrances to buildings, Read More…