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Photos Courtesy
Arcadia Publishing and
The Cherokee County Historical Commission
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Carefully
avoiding the sun, these Jacksonville women gathered for a matinee
at the The Palace Theater c. 1932. The feature: The Law of Sex was
billed as "The smash educational hit of 1932."
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Southern
Pacific Railroad Singers. This Jacksonville-based female choir performed
in Texas towns all along the SP route in the late 1920s
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Sweet Union Church was Jacksonville's first Black Baptist Church.
Originally located on what became the Jacksonville College campus
in 1899, the church was moved to Main and Pine Streets in 1900. |
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Frederick Douglass School c.1930 Built in 1922, the building was partial
funded by the Rosenwald Foundation. After Integration, it was used
for special education classes until it burned in the 1980s. |
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