Talk:History of Jacksonville, Florida

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[edit] Article orgins

This article came into existance at roughly 21:40, 23 October 2005 (UTC). It was copied and pasted from the main Jacksonville article, the history section of which will be abbreviated and a link put to this article. HereToHelp talk 21:40, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Racial tensions

I removed a line about the Episcopal High School of Jacksonville from the "racial tensions" section. While I don't doubt it was founded as an all-white school, or that blacks didn't attend until the 70's, I'm pretty sure it would have been illegal for them not to allow blacks after the Civil Rights act, even though it's a private school. I also don't think its as relevant as the other items in the section, which are pretty major- it's a school with only about 800 students even today.--Cuchullain 21:08, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, this article does state that while desegregation was planned on starting in 1963, it wasn't until 1971 that it actually occurred. That was probably when Episcopal was integrated, so maybe it is best to leave it out. Mike H. That's hot 10:33, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that date, I missed it entirely.--Cúchullain t / c 21:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC)