Our history is like a compass : Seven Tallahassee seniors reflect during Black History Month
Tallahassee Democrat 2/13/2021 Marina Brown, Tallahassee Democrat Contributor
How Black History Month began and how it has changed to what it is today
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The history of Tallahassee and its older African American citizens is woven tightly together.
During this Black History Month, the Democrat is revisiting conversations with seven Tallahassee residents – with their long lives and multiple accomplishments – who know that from poverty, a professor can be born. That teachers and historians may have once walked behind mules.
By sharing a few of their reminiscences and an iron-clad exhortation for Black youth to work hard, become educated, and believe in themselves, they offer their own legacies as proof that one day all may sing… “We HAVE Overcome.”