by Corinna Moebius | May 19, 2021 | History
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... 
by Corinna Moebius | Apr 21, 2021 | History
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... 
by Corinna Moebius | Nov 30, 2020 | History
Black Settlement of Southeastern Florida In the late 19th century, Standard Oil tycoon Henry Morrison Flagler brings the Florida East Coast Railway from West Palm Beach to Miami. African Americans laborers help construct the railroad tracks. Palm Beach County is still... 
by Corinna Moebius | Nov 30, 2020 | History
The period of Reconstruction, which begins in 1865 after the ending of the Civil War, is a post-war moment when the United States – both the general population and its elected officials – works to establish a government and laws that pay heed to the ending of slavery.... 
by West Palm Beach | Nov 30, 2020 | History
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...
