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Working ongoing to save shuttered Colson Hotel -- important to the early Black History of Sarasota

Working ongoing to save shuttered Colson Hotel -- important to the early Black History of Sarasota
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Sarasota s Newton community is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Sarasota s Newton community is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Lynching marker honors 6 victims who were killed in Sarasota-Manatee County by mobs

Almost six years in the making, the community remembrance marker sits just off Fruitville Road behind the Universalist Unitarian Church of Sarasota.

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Marker honoring lynching victims to be placed in Sarasota

There were at least six documented cases of lynching that occurred in the Sarasota and Manatee areas during the 1900s.

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MLK s Montegomery speech to be celebrated next weekend

Dr. King gave this speech after the Selma to Montgomery March on March 25, 1965.

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