West Palm Beach 1960s-1980s

West Palm Beach 1960s-1980s

1960s: Housing Divides In the 1960s, the West Palm Beach Housing Agency begins to buy property in Pleasant City, flooding it with scattered-site housing for income-restricted residents: 132 apartments in 33 quadplexes. Residents are stereotyped as drug addicts and...
West Palm Beach 1920s-1950s

West Palm Beach 1920s-1950s

1920s: Building a Community of Civil Rights Leaders In the first half of the 20th century, most affluent African Americans of West Palm Beach live in the Freshwater District, in houses built by local African American contractors and designed by Hazel Augustus, the...
Early Florida

Early Florida

Early Floridians Early indigenous peoples in southeast Florida included the Jeaga, Jobe, Ais and Tequesta. According to archaeological evidence, Jaegas settled in modern-day Palm Beach County at least 5,000 years ago. The Spanish arrive in 1519, when Juan Ponce de...
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