Women’s History Month: Here’s a guide to events happening across Central Florida to celebrate Sarah Wilson
March is Women’s History Month in the U.S., and organizations across Central Florida are hosting events throughout the month in celebration of women’s contributions to society.
See a list of events happening across our area below:
‘Woman In Motion’ screening
In celebration of Women’s History month, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the City of Orlando are hosting a showing of “Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA” at the Dr. Phillips Center’s Frontyard Festival.
Posted By Ken Storey on Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:49 PM click to enlarge The owner of the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine attempting to enforce his whites only pool rules in 1964. Florida is beginning to acknowledge the horrific injustices of its past, but it is lagging behind as other states forge ahead. In 2019, Florida attempted to embrace a growing interest in civil rights tourism when it added five sites to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. The Trail was established the year prior as a way to connect the more than sixty primary and forty secondary sites that played a paramount role in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.
Scholarship, loans proposed for Ocoee Massacre descendants Daralene Jones
Student scholarships for college and loans for Black-owned businesses are part of a plan to move forward with a proposal for a form of reparations for descendants of the Ocoee Massacre victims.
A similar plan failed to get any support last year during the state legislative session. In fact, the sponsor, Sen. Randolph Bracy of Ocoee, was forced to take reparations out of a bill that was approved, and now mandates that the details of the Nov. 2, 1920 massacre be taught in schools across the state.
Bracy said this deal he’s negotiating would allow bypassing the traditional legislative process of sending the bill through committees and both legislative chambers for approval. Instead, it would be a recurring line item in the budget, tacking it onto the Black Business Loan and Rosewood Scholarship programs already in place.
Posted By Jim Turner, NSF on Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:20 AM click to enlarge Sen. Randolph Bracy A state senator is seeking to expand a scholarship program set up more than 25 years ago because of a massacre in Rosewood to include people whose families were directly affected by the racially motivated 1920 Ocoee Election Day riot in Central Florida. Sen. Randolph Bracy, D-Orlando, said Wednesday he’s been in talks with House and Senate Republican leaders to expand the Rosewood Family Scholarship, which offers up to $6,100 a year to students descended from victims of the January 1923 massacre in the predominantly black Levy County community.
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