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Louise Celia 'Lulu' Fleming (1862—1899) was a medical doctor and one of the first African-Americans to graduate from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She returned from Africa to improve her skills and she was the first African-American woman to be commissioned for work in Africa by the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. Christian Dating For Free (CDFF) is the #1 Online Christian service for meeting quality Christian Singles in Fleming Island, Florida. Basic Search Advanced Search User Search Showing Records: 1 to 7 of 7 matching your search criteria. Find african restaurants in Fleming Island, FL on Yellowbook. Get reviews and contact details for each business including videos, opening hours and more. We take you around Fleming Island to find out what it's like to call it home. African American 6.4% (1,849) American Indian 0.1% (35) Asian 2.1% (597).
African-American history in what is now Clay County stretches back to at least as early as 1764. It is punctuated with dark days (the Tutsons), triumph (Orange Park Normal School), perseverance (the Forrester family) and beauty (Augusta Savage).
No complete narrative has been published yet, so here we present some important source material, hoping one of you may be inspired to more fully write the story.
Orange Park Normal School
The Orange Park Normal School. An integrated school prior to desegregation
Arrest Warrant Paper: “The Hand School”, by Faye Irwin.
Information filed against one of the teachers at the Orange Park Normal School. These original documents are available at the Archives.
The Freedmen’s Bureau at Magnolia
The Freedmen’s bureau served as an orphanage for black children from all over the Jacksonville area. It was called an asylum, but served as an orphanage and hospital. Various extant records of the Freemen’s Bureau are available in subject files at the Archives. A description of its activities is in Parade of Memories, pg 114.
The Goldmine of Names
The Goldmine of Names contains more than 50,000 entries which refer to the records of people in Clay County before about 1920. Volunteers are happy to help you with some custom searches if you are having difficulty.
Historical Papers
Our first free African-American Family – The Forresters, by Vishi Garig is available at the Archives.
History of the First African Missionary Baptist Church by Vishi Garig
Dr. Schaefer’s online history of Civil War Colored Infantry troops in Florida
Subject Files
Augusta Savage
Hill Top Museum
Lumber and Sawmills
Turpentine (Naval Stores)
Some Records available at the Archives
- Extant Collection of Slave Documents from probate files and other sources
- African-American census 1860 of Clay County
- Free blacks in East Florida 1794-1820
- Black burials in Green Cove Springs through 1939
- Mt. Olive Cemetery records
- African-American Obituaries in Clay County
- First territorial survey of the McIntosh plantation at Laurel Grove — perhaps showing slave quarters
- Tutson Testimony further outlined in Parade of Memories, pg 101
- The Civilian Conservation Corp records indicate that Companies 416 and 418 (both African-American unites) worked in Clay County.
Oral Interviews
Burroughs Jackson, Maude
Article: “Maude Jackson was part of Civil Rights struggle”
(1862-1899) was born to slave parents on Fleming Island in 1862. Her father was a mixed race man named David Fleming. Lulu grew up on Hibernia Plantation before its white owners had to free her. She was baptized at the Bethel Baptist Institutional Church in Jacksonville at age 14, trained to become a teacher, taught in St. Augustine, attended Shaw University in North Carolina and graduated as valedictorian.
In 1886, she became the first African American woman appointed as a foreign missionary and assigned to the Congo, Africa. Afterward, she returned to America and attended medical school at The Women’s Medical College at Philadelphia, from which she graduated in 1895. Once again, she returned to Africa to work as the first female African-American doctor sent as a missionary to Africa serving there only four years before contracting African sleeping sickness and dying back in Philadelphia.
Savage, Augusta Fells
Augusta Savage was determined since childhood to become a sculptor. She was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida to a father who worked in the local brickyard and a mother who was a laundress. She used local clay to create her first works of art. Augusta Savage moved to New York City in the early 1920s to study at Cooper Union’s School of Art. She quickly became one of the most influential artists in the Harlem Renaissance. She sculpted the likenesses of many other African-American leaders, among them Marcus Garvey and. scholar W. E. B. Du Bois.
In 1924 Savage sculpted a plaster bust of her nephew and called the piece Gamin (French for “street urchin”). It won Savage a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship and a year’s study in Paris. She had been previously denied an opportunity to study abroad because of the color of her skin.
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She returned to Harlem and began teaching aspiring artists. In 1932 she established the Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts, an arts-education center for adults. She later became the first director of Harlem’s Community Arts Center ( a WPA project)
In 1939, Savage was commissioned to create a sculpture for the New York World’s Fair. “The Harp” was inspired by James Weldon Johnson’s 1900 song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Savage knew Johnson from her short stay Jacksonville, Florida on the way to New York.
Hurston, Zora Neil
Writer
Vanessa Williams narrated her life story, which is available at the Archives.
Richard Norman and Norman Studios
Richard Norman (1891-1960) was born in Middleburg and went on to found “Norman Studios.” He had an early understanding that there was a niche market for films starring black actors and for black audiences. His Norman Studios , in Jacksonville, was among the first silent film producers.
- St. Lukes Church
- First African Baptist Church
- First African Missionary Baptist Church
- St Mark Missionary Baptist Church
- St. James African Methodist Episcopal
- Mt Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church
- Mt Olive Baptist Church
- Mount Zion AME
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Orange Park Negro Elementary School
The Orange Park Negro Elementary School (also known as the TC Miller Park and Community Center) is a historic school in Orange Park, Florida. It is located at 440 McIntosh Avenue. On July 15, 1998, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
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- Six Black Masters of American Art, which details the life of Augusta Savage, including her time in Paris.
- African American Heritage of Florida, by David Colburn and Jane Landers
- African American Historic Places, by Beth L. Savage
- African American Lives, by Gates, Jr. & Evelyn Higginbotham
- African American Sites in Florida, by Kevin M. McCarthy
- Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, by Daniel L. Shafer
- Army Life in a Black Regiment& Other Writings by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Augusta Savage, a binder
- Black Society in Spanish Florida, by Jane Landers
- Every Tongue Got to Confess, by Zora Neale Hurston
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- Family Records of the African American Pioneers of Tampa and Hillsborough County, by Canter Brown & Barbara Gray Brown
- Harlem Renaissance, Art of Black America
- If It Takes All Summer, MLK, by Dan R. Warren
- Kingsley Plantation
- New Negro Artists in Paris, by Leniger-Miller
- Our Kind of People, Black Upper Class, by Lawrence Otis Graham
- Slave Narratives 1936 – 1938 Florida
- Slavery in Florida, by Larry Eugene Rivers
- Two Months in St. Augustine, 1964
- Women and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. By. Jean Fagan Yellin