Almost a century after he was killed by police, this weekend people in Jacksonville will commemorate a Black man whose corpse was put on display for curiosity seekers as being the victim of a racial terror lynching.
Willie Washington, a 22-year-old chauffeur, was shot inside his family’s downtown home on Jan. 31, 1925 after a weeklong manhunt for a nameless Black man who had attacked a white society woman.
What happened after the shooting made his death a lynching.
“The body of the negro was placed on exhibit yesterday at 11 o’clock following a conference of local officials,” the Times-Union reported at the time.
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Nearing his two-year anniversary as president, Dennis Bailey-Fougnier resigned from the top job at Blue Mountain Community College on Thursday, Feb. 11.
The BMCC Board of Education formally accepted his resignation at a special meeting, where they also named John Fields, the collegeâs vice president of instruction, as the schoolâs acting president.
In a Friday, Feb. 12, press release, the college stated that Bailey-Fougnier was diagnosed with cancer late last year, and although he initially decided to work through his treatment, he was now turning his attention toward his health.
âBMCC is a fantastic institution with a strong future ahead. I regret that I will not be able to be a part of that future but I have decided I need to focus on my health,â Bailey-Fougnier said in a statement. âI am grateful to everyone who contributes to the success of BMCC.â
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When Mincy Pollock made a pitch to other African-American business owners about joining him as a JAX Chamber member, the response typically was a dismissive why bother shrug.
As much as Pollock sees the chamber as a valuable way for growing his two small businesses Florida Care Insurance and Pollock Group he could understand the skepticism. When I go to the (chamber) meetings, a lot of times, as my grandma would say, I m a fly in a glass of milk, he said. I would go and I would talk to other business owners about Hey, you really should be connected with the chamber, and they have said in the past, It doesn t look like we fit. I don t know if they want us.