Alachua County Digital Black Heritage Trail Map and Website

Press release from Alachua County

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – In partnership with the University of Florida’s Museum Studies Program, the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project (ACCRP) is pleased to announce the Alachua County Digital Black Heritage Trail Map and website

The Digital Black Heritage Trail Map includes 140 community-identified places of significance. It can be viewed independently or by visiting the Alachua County Truth & Reconciliation website. 

The website is redesigned to feature entirely new content, including ACCRP media and archival resourcestrauma-informed resources and curricula for educators, and a custom video animation that honors the victims of racial terror lynching in Alachua County.

A print run of approximately 1,600 maps are available for free county-wide distribution. Maps can be picked up at the front desk of the County Commission Office on the second floor of the County Administration Building (12 S.E. 1st Street, Gainesville). A QR code on the map directs users to the updated website. 

The Alachua County Digital Black Heritage Trail Map and website highlight the black community’s cultural significance to counter the systematic century-long effort to erase black culture beginning during the Jim Crow era. Demonstrating the importance of black place-making and institution-building, the map reflects the intergenerational memories of black culture. With over 140 historical places of significance already identified during phase one of the project, the trail celebrates the resilience of the County’s black communities. The University of Florida’s Graduate Program in Museum Studies is designing and installing a permanent exhibition in the Alachua County Administration Building in honor of local victims of racial terror and lynching later this spring.

The ACCRP is a grassroots community organization dedicated to educating the community about the history of racial violence during the Jim Crow era and its legacies in the persistent racial disparities faced in Alachua County today.

  • Hopefully it is updated with all the
    Black on Black killings/shootings of today.
    Focus on today and tomorrow. And we will have a better future.

  • The now year round Black heritage MONTH is supposed to be FEBRUARY, folks. And we don’t need to keep celebrating the criminal actions of the Democrats year round, either.

    For the few who are unaware, it was the Democrat Party who was responsible for slaves, Jim Crow and the KKK.

    • Humm yet republican MAGA’s gonna nominate the guy inundated in criminal trials. And this too, Republican party courted them there Dixiecrats, southern state Democrats using this strategy …”The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” Ehrlichman told journalist Dan Baum in 1994. “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.” The accusation was shocking, characterizing the war on drugs as a racist, politically motivated crusade.

      • And Biden didnt say he didnt want his childern growing up in a jungle, a racial jungle speaking on integrated busing in 1977. Biden didn’t say if you have a problem deciding to vote for him or Trump, you ain’t black in 2020. Biden didn’t say Latinos were worried about getting vaccinated and deported. I can go on and and on. Tit for tat guest. You earned the idiot award today. Referring Trump to Nixon. Biden to Sen Byrd former KKK member, Democrat, Jim crow, supporter of slavery, etc

  • Yes indeed….because of all the wonderful contributions they have made to our society?

  • Yes j, that’s cut from the same cookie cutter as the Department of Doing. Probably all from California.

  • Suggestion: At each of the 140 sites the county installs a keyboard linked to the internet. Any visitor to one of these historial sites can use the free county keyboard to fill out their family’s reparations application.

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