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This unit introduces major themes, events, and individuals in Seminole history using primary sources from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.

Trains helped to establish new towns and cities in Florida, and served the lumber, phosphate, tourist, manufacturing and agricultural industries.

Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls which is now Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Florida. Read the transcript of an interview for an unfinished biography.

This unit provides an introduction to Florida's involvement in the Space Age through photographs, lesson plans, and exercises.

Reverend C. K. Steele and Reverend H. McNeal Harris (pastor of Bethel AME church) protested segregated seating on Tallahassee city buses by sitting in the middle instead of at the back of the bus.

In June 1961 Interfaith Freedom Riders challenged segregated interstate buses by traveling from Washington, D.C. to Tallahassee, Florida.

In the summer of 1959, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized the Miami Interracial Action Institute and taught attendees principles of non-violent direct action to combat inequality in the South.

From 1972 to 1982, Florida lawmakers addressed the question of whether to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The amendment proposed that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex." Floridians' response to the ERA mirrored the national divide over the amendment's message on gender equality.

The Florida Memory Timeline Challenge invites students and history lovers of all ages to test and strengthen their knowledge of both Florida and U.S. history by arranging historical events, figures, and documents in their correct chronological order.