On this, the centennial of Negro History Week, Jacksonville Today has compiled the Blacksonville 100, a list of people with ties to Jacksonville who made an impact. Some lived their whole lives in Jacksonville. Others lived here but made a larger impact elsewhere. A select few were reared elsewhere but left an indelible mark in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
This city has raised champions, cultivated great artists and educated exemplary people.The Blacksonville 100 is a recognition of trailblazers, who represent a small sample of the millions of melanated Jaxsons past and present. We listened to local historians, scholars, authors and a few seasoned saints to compile the Blacksonville 100. They include Jerry Urso; Rahman Johnson, Ph.D.; David Jamison, Ph.D.; Tim Gilmore, Ph.D.; Alan Bliss, Ph.D.; Brenda Simmons-Hutchins, Ph.D.; Sylvia Perry; Adonica Toler, Ph.D.; Carol Alexander and Larry Wesley, Ph.D.<\/p>\n
Reporting from the late Camilla Perkins Thompson \u2013 the daughter of famed attorney Daniel Webster Perkins \u2013 was invaluable to this project. Research from the late Mary F. Mungen Jameson and The Jaxson\u2019s Ennis Davis contributed to this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this, the centennial of Negro History Week, Jacksonville Today has compiled the Blacksonville 100, a list of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-167559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}