1920s-1940s – NAACP Fights for Equity in Teacher Pay Beginning in the 1920s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) be... Learn More
1895 – “Sheats Law” Targets the Only Integrated Private School in Florida In 1891, the Orange Park Normal and Industrial School was established by the American Missionary ... Learn More
1885 – Florida’s Constitution Codifies School Segregation By enforcing segregation in Florida’s schools, the state Legislature not only created a separate ... Learn More
1873 – Jonathan C. Gibbs Becomes Florida’s First Secretary of Public Ins... The history of Florida’s present public education system dates to the Reconstruction Era, when di... Learn More
1866 – Black Codes Establish School Funding Discrimination In 1865, overtly discriminatory laws known as the “Black Codes” were encoded in the Constitution ... Learn More
1865-1872 – Freedmen’s Bureau Establishes Schools in Florida The value Black people placed on education and its central connection to freedom, democracy, and ... Learn More
