Ceremonial Shovels

Ceremonial Shovels

Groundbreaking Shovels

Oviedo (Fla.)

African Americans--Florida

Schools

Education--Florida

Segregation--Florida

Elementary schools--United States

Five ceremonial shovels rest on the wooden steps of the Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum at a groundbreaking ceremony on February 13, 2023. A banner hangs at the top of the doors that reads, "Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum, Inc. hocsmuseum.org." A brown welcome mat that reads, "Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum, Inc." sits at the foot of the steps.

In 2000, Gloria Godwin and Gracia Muller Miller began talking about a reunion for the Jackson Heights Elementary School, a colored school in Oviedo during segregation. Reunion Historian, Judith Smith, began to look for artifacts from that era and struggled to locate any pictures or other information. She put the word out amongst the former students, asking to borrow photographs or other materials related to the colored school. Immediately, items began to pour in, and the result was a book entitled: “A Written and Pictorial History of the Oviedo Area Colored Schools 1890-1967, Oviedo Elementary, Jackson Heights Elementary, Geneva, Wagner, Kolokee (Snowhill), Gabriella (Jamestown).” From there, the mission was born.

Cravero, Geoffrey

3 original color photographs: RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

2023-02-13

2023-02-13

Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum Collection, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.

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Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum, Oviedo, Florida

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Originally created by Geoffrey Cravero and published by RICHES.

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Cravero, Geoffrey

RICHES

Robison Jim. Around Oviedo. Charleston South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. 2012. Accessed November 4, 2022.

"1878 -1913 Black Schools in Seminole County." Parks and Preservation, Seminole County Government.” Accessed November 4, 2022.

The World Outside Reunion. “A Written and Pictorial History of the Oviedo Area Colored Schools, 1890-1967.” RICHES of Central Florida accessed November 4, 2022, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/5258.