Two Florida cities, two paths: Former ‘sundown towns' grapple with their pasts
Reader warning: This story includes a reference to signs containing an offensive racial slur toward Black people, as part of more extensive reporti...
Reader warning: This story includes a reference to signs containing an offensive racial slur toward Black people, as part of more extensive reporting about historic discrimination practices in Florida towns. Standing in a barren field dotted by a few trees along a Santa Rosa County road in the Florida Panhandle, Pensacola historian Tom Garner held a solitary vigil in February for the 100th commemoration of a violent confrontation between a Black farmer and white farmer — one that would have profound consequences for the way the northern part of the county would be shaped for the rest of the century.