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Nov 23, 2015 · Digital map shows spread of KKK across United States like ‘a contagion’ - VCU News - Virginia Commonwealth University. Each red dot represents a local Klan chapter, known as a Klavern, that spread across the country between 1915 and 1940. Nov. 23, 2015.
The SPLC says 40 hate groups — from white supremacists to anti-LGBTQ, KKK and black separatist organizations — are active in the Keystone State. The SPLC website has an interactive map showing...
Aug 15, 2017 · The SLPC website has an interactive map showing the location of hate groups state by state. Within the Sunshine State, the SLPC says there are 63 active hate groups. Here's where those groups are...
- In 1922, Jay’s Racial Legacy Forms After Altercation Between Two Farmers
- ‘Be Out of Jay by Sundown’
- What Defines A ‘Sundown Town’?
- Ocoee’s Deadly History and Racial Past Widely Recognized
- Today, Jay Is ‘Welcome and Safe’ For Everyone
The story of Jay’s racial legacy began with an argument over a piece of farm equipment between two farmers. One was a Black farmer named Albert Thompson. The other was a white farmer named Sam Echols. The year was 1922. The pair got into an altercation over a stalk cutter Thompson owned. Echols wanted to use the expensive piece of equipment and Tho...
Jewel Cannada-Wynn grew up in Century, a small town across the Escambia River from Jay with a large Black population. Cannada-Wynn, who is now a former Pensacola City Council member, was 7 years old when she began working as a field hand with her family, pulling weeds out of peanut and soybean fields in Jay in 1966. “The rule was that you had to be...
The concept of a “sundown town” dates back to the earliest days of America, where rules were in place to keep minorities from living in a community. But the term “sundown town” arose in the 20th centurywhen towns would post public signs to warn Black people or other minorities that they had to be out of the town by dark or risk becoming a victim of...
In contrast to Jay, which has yet to acknowledge its history of racial strife, the Central Florida city of Ocoee has in recent years recognized its dark past. Like Jay, Ocoee also had a horrific racial incident just two years earlier than Jay that also led to the exodus of Blacks for decades. Known as the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, it is considered the d...
In Jay, there has been no public acknowledgment of what happened in 1922 when the two farmers fought and how it triggered the intimidating departure of Blacks from the town. Jay remained a small farming community, but in the 1970s, the town saw an oil boom that brought new levels of prosperity to the community. Signs that were around town marking t...
- Jim Little
- Escambia County Local Impact Reporter
Mar 12, 2021 · Sicarii 1715 is a San Diego-based anti-Semitic and racist fringe religious group whose followers believe that Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are the true descendants of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Of Florida's 68 hate groups identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center, 14 are statewide.
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