James B. CrooksPart Three of Jim Crooks’ history of Jacksonville race relations
By James B. Crooks Editor’s note: Dr. Jim Crooks, Jacksonville historian and retired University of North Florida Professor, has written a brief history of Jacksonville’s race relations presented here in three parts. We believe these articles offer...
Historian Jim Crooks recounts Jacksonville's history of race relations
Our national and local conversation about whether or not to remove monuments, symbols, memorials, plaques and names celebrating the Confederacy is tough. Really tough. It is at once emotional and academic, local and national, historic and...
by James B. Crooks, for Jaxlookout, October 21, 2018 JACKSONVILLE IN THE 1960s On the surface, mid-1960s Jacksonville, Florida, looked prosperous. Under Haydon Burns’s sixteen years as mayor, much of downtown had been re-built with new waterfront...
I’ve been writing about the extremes of Northeast Florida’s climate for years. Since I’m trying to capture/reproduce the city in intricate snapshots in my writing, I have to write about Jacksonville’s tornados, hurricanes, lightning strikes and...
Consolidation of the City of Jacksonville with Duval County in 1968 matched, mostly, the city’s limits with the county’s borders. It is arguably the First Big Thing that makes Jacksonville distinctive: it is the largest city in the contiguous United...
Ron LittlepageThe celebrations leading up to the 50th anniversary in October of Jacksonville’s consolidated form of government will extol its successes. The warts and unfulfilled promises are just as important to remember. Two sons of members of the first City...