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Updated Mar. 2 Warning: The descriptions in this story and a photograph of a public lynching are graphic and disturbing. Six years ago, a crew replacing light poles on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street found an engraved metal plate. It was a few feet off the ground, blackened with graffiti and hidden behind a planter bursting with bird of paradise, almost invisible. âAt this intersection, Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans a black laborer from Dunnellon was lynched,â it said, âcondemned by a secret council of 15 of St. Petersburgâs most influential citizens, he was then turned over to a mob of 1,500 white residents and murdered.â ....
The St. Petersburg NAACP is getting a new president. Meet Esther Eugene Eugene, 45, steps into the role at a turbulent time during a pandemic disproportionately affecting people of color in Pinellas and amid community unrest following a string of shootings in St. Pete. Â Published Dec. 24, 2020 The following first appeared in the Regarding Race newsletter, a biweekly look at race, identity and culture issues in Tampa Bay from engagement producer Monique Welch and other Times staffers. To subscribe and receive it in your email inbox every other Tuesday, . It is no secret that the St. Petersburg branch of the NAACP has had a tumultuous, and at times, drama-filled past. ....