This is where my mom is from. I remember spending time on the beach as a kid. No that I’m older I remember the barrier being up that divided American Beach from the white beach.
I visited American Beach last summer.. years ago I read about Abraham so I put AB on my list of places to visit...there are also a history of black folks in San Fernandina ... I drove all over FL last summer... I saw black folks in the smallest of town. I didn’t realize how dominant black folks presence was in the state. I started off in Eatonville because I luv Zora Neale Hurston ....
zorazora zorzzora my family owned American beach we are also the people of Kingsley plantation some of the richest black people in Florida 😊😊 we was free blacks and very wealthy
@@cakelady9291I live down this area now it’s crazy how there is no black business in fernandina I was just telling my husband I would like to open a storefront for my business I have to look more into it
@Ninqi...Wealthy black Americans need to take a cue from the economic development seen among once impoverished American tribal peoples, e.g., the Chumash in Santa Barbara county, the Coquille peoples of southern Oregon, the dynamic success of the Asian Americans, among others. Many will argue that the human rights efforts under Dr. King might've focused more an economic development than the nebulous "integration" which would've prevented the loss of black American history such as seen in this video.
Could it be the focus might better have been on the dual economic development we see in the Sweet Auburn section of Atlanta, GA., Martha's Vineyard's Oak Bluff section, Val Verde, CA., Manhattan Beach, CA, the Greenwood section of Tulsa, OK., the Negro baseball league, among other measures of self reliance and economic development?
I would love to think that BLM with the millions they raised could help restore American Beach. This looked like it was such a treasure, and to let it be in ruins is heartbreaking. All the best!
