Jacksonville longshoreman and union head backs college scholarships
Charles Spencer, the ninth of 10 children, grew up four blocks from the Talleyrand docks in a wooden shotgun house resting atop brick piers. Jacksonville's port was smaller then and security just about nonexistent, and nobody minded that he and the neighborhood kids would go play there and grab the occasional orange or grapefruit just in by boat. It's not as if they had any parks to play in, after all. Nobody in Spencer's large family worked at the docks, but he went ahead and got a job there anyway at 19, where the older men there called him "Jitterbug." He didn't expect to stay long, but ...
Source: jacksonville.com