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Ed Dick, perhaps the most compassionate person to ever live in Manatee County, or any county for that matter, has died at 91. Wherever he is tonight, no one will be burning crosses on his lawn, that’s for sure.
You didn’t know? Oh, yeah. Cowards use to do that to him. Burn crosses. Right here in Bradenton. That’s because back in the early 1960s, years before the Selma marches in Alabama, he went around the area and recruited thousands of black people to vote. Some, as you can imagine, weren’t too keen on the idea.
He also changed college football. He was the man responsible for getting a Palmetto Lincoln football player named Raymond Bellamy a scholarship to the University of Miami. Bellamy became the first Black player at a Division 1-A school in the South. This was Jackie Robinson stuff, the significance of which can never be understated.
Florida State s history documented by university archivists
Ella Hechlik
Florida State University is well-known for its history and the names, stories and myths that go along with it. From the kissing bench to the constant name-changing of the university, it is hard not to notice the history of the campus.
However, most students are probably unaware of the work that the University Library puts into archiving and looking into the past, and of the fascinating and long history of FSU.
Back in 2006, history professor Jennifer Koslow and her students put together an extensive timeline of the university and the major (and minor) events that took place from 1851 to 1993. It was a student-run project that discussed everything from when women were allowed to wear Bermuda shorts to when students celebrated the end of World War I.