St. James CME Church

This Gothic Revival structure was constructed in 1899 on land purchased by black members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church who formed a separate organization known as the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. There were at least two earlier structures on ...

Rosa Parks Marker and C.K. Steele Statue

On December 1, 2005, a marker commemorating Rosa Parks was placed at the bus plaza with a statue honoring longtime Tallahassee civic rights leader, Reverend C.K. Steele (1914-1980).

The former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Reverend Steele became the most ...

Historic Capitol Museum & Florida Legislative Research Center

Highlighting the history of Florida politics and encouraging citizen involvement in the political process, exhibits examine the struggle for civil rights in Florida with displays about Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tallahassee bus boycott and civil rights activist Harry T. ...

Old City Cemetery

The present boundaries of the Old City Cemetery were established by the Florida Territorial Council in 1829. Many pioneers and their slaves are buried here, although some early Tallahasseans were buried several hundred feet east of this site.

As Tallahassee's ...

John G. Riley House

The John G. Riley house represents the thriving black neighborhood that once existed in what is now the downtown area of Tallahassee. John Gilmore Riley was a black educator and civic leader in Tallahassee in the late 19th and early ...

Jakes-Patterson Monument

On May 26, 1956, Florida A&M University students Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson were arrested in Tallahassee because they refused to give up their bus seats next to a white passenger. The students were harassed and a cross was burned ...

Integration Statue

This statue recognizes three of the first African American students to enroll and graduate from Florida State University in the 1960s. Represented are: Maxwell Courtney, the first to enroll and graduate; Doby Flowers, who enrolled, graduated, and was the first ...

Frenchtown Historic Community

In 1831, historic plantations, churches, homesteads, educational institutions, businesses and residences filled this area.

The community has long been occupied by free people of color and other persons of African descent. Following the Civil War many freed slaves migrated into ...

Fred Douglas Lee Statue

Fred Douglas Lee was the first black policeman in Tallahassee assigned to a regular beat. He was recruited by civil rights activist Rev. C. K. Steele, Sr., and others, to break the color barrier that existed in law enforcement prior ...

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Established in 1887 as the Florida State Normal College for Colored Students, FAMU is the oldest historically black public university in Florida. The first president, Thomas DeSaille Tucker, and his assistant, Thomas Van Rennasaler, guided the school's beginning including its ...