Specialty license plate created in honor of the Highwaymen
Selling landscapes along the roadside in the 1960s and 1970s, a group of African-American artists based around Fort Pierce became known as the âHighwaymenâ.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. â Selling landscapes along the roadside in the 1960s and 1970s, a group of African-American artists based around Fort Pierce became known as the âHighwaymenâ.
Now, thereâs a push to preserve their legacy on and off the road.
At the A.E Backus Gallery in Fort Pierce, the works on the wall are easy to identify.
The poinciana trees, the backcountry, the surf, all hallmarks of a Highwayman painting.
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DAYTONA BEACH In 1958, it was time for Tyrone Presley to go to college.
His older sister was already enrolled at Bethune-Cookman College, the private Daytona Beach school serving Black students in a time of racial segregation. Florida s state universities wouldn t begin admitting their first Black students until four years later.
But a new alternative arrived just in time.
Gov. LeRoy Collins and the Legislature in 1957 agreed on a plan to greatly expand the state s community college system from five schools to 28, with six to be established that year, including one in Daytona Beach.
These were the days of segregation in the South, where the legal principle of separate but equal was in force, so instead of one school, Daytona Beach and ultimately 11 other communities around the state got two. White students attended Daytona Beach Junior College and Blacks went to Volusia County Community College.
OH weather: School closings and delays in Northeast Ohio for Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
CLEVELAND, Ohio A winter storm that has a potential to dump 8 to 12 inches on the Cleveland and Akron areas has resulted in dozens of Northeast Ohio school districts canceling or delaying classes for Tuesday.
Several major school districts made the decision to cancel Tuesday’s classes by Monday evening, including Akron City Schools, Avon and Avon Lake schools, Canton City Schools, East Cleveland City Schools, Elyria City Schools, Eulclid City Schools, Mentor Exempted Village School District, and Shaker Heights Schools, to name just a few. Some districts in the area are closing buildings but will have remote classes on Tuesday, including Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools.