A cavalcade of Black History lined the circular walk at Tallahassee’s Speed\/Spencer\/Stephens Park near Florida A&M University on Saturday, May 16. The event was a kickoff for this week’s Florida Emancipation Day observance.<\/p>\n
The Walk Through Living History included a real example of living history: Riley House Museum Founder Althemese Barnes whose ancestry included enslavement.<\/p>\n
“My great-grandfather, Austin Porter, was at Waverly Plantation. He was the caregiver. The Hodges, the owners, were up north.”<\/p>\n
Some history was after Emancipation Day. Famed local pilot and doctor Alex Brickler was enthralling folks young and old with tales of World War Two’s Tuskegee Airmen.<\/p>\n
“These guys went through a lot more than we had to go through and they managed to make it work and rise above. And that’s what is important.”<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Emancipation Day concludes with the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation at the Knott House in downtown Tallahassee.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cavalcade of Black History lined the circular walk at Tallahassee’s Speed\/Spencer\/Stephens Park near Florida A&M University on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-274806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274806","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=274806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}