Joseph “Joel” Marcus Buchanan, a longtime educator and local legend for his work in preserving black history in Gainesville, died Sunday at UF Health Shands Hospital after going into cardiac arrest. He was 65.
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Ken Johnston was interviewed by Mike Parker (both pictured here from the Daily Sun) for the World War II Collection at SPOHP in Spring 2014. His interview is under the WWII-213 code.
Dr. Lawrence Goodwyn, distinguished professor of history at Duke University, taught at Duke from 1971 until his retirement in 2003. He recently passed away in Durham, North Carolina, on September 29, 2013. In a collaborative media portal, his life and work are highlighted by family, friends, and colleagues. Goodwyn Experiences St. Augustine, FLA: An Oral […]
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Dr. Paredes, ethnologist and applied anthropologist, worked with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians throughout his life and developed the Poarch Creek Project at SPOHP. Photo from the Poarch Creek Nation.
Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.
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Noted Florida author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, best known for infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, died August 27, 2011. Throughout his life, he worked as a vocal advocate for environmental causes, labor organizing, and human rights. In October 2013, UF Special Collections and SPOHP celebrated the donation of Kennedy’s personal papers to the […]
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