Fredd Atkins on Changing Education in Sarasota
Fredd Atkins’ story is a testament to the power that teenagers have to shake up institutional systems. He was reared in an Augustine Quarters “shotgun...
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Newtown Alive is a podcast dedicated to the lives, memories and stories of the people of Newtown, Florida. Honoring the work that our predecessors did, while acknowledging the work left to do. For more information and all episodes visit our site: http://www.newtownalive.org/
Fredd Atkins on Changing Education in Sarasota
Fredd Atkins’ story is a testament to the power that teenagers have to shake up institutional systems. He was reared in an Augustine Quarters “shotgun...
Victoria Brown on Helping Others to Help Themselves
“Ms. Vicky” is the founder of Dollar Dynasty, a nonprofit community outreach organization that doubles as a thrift store and a food distribution site ...
John Rivers Discusses the Fight for Social Equality and Justice in Sarasota
John Rivers is the former president of the NAACP's Sarasota Branch. He moved to Sarasota from Mobile, Alabama in 1951 in search of work to support his...
Laughing Through Life with Glossie Atkins
Glossie Atkins laughs easily and sometimes uncontrollably at the thought of fun times in Overtown. The daughter of Jay and Nettie Campbell was born in...
Dr. Edward James II on Desegregation in Sarasota County
Dr. Edward E. James II has been an active civil rights leader in the Newtown community since he was a college student at Florida A&M University. He wa...
Wade Harvin on the Supportive Nature of the Overtown & Newtown Communities
Mr. Harvin was born in Crescent City, Florida and moved to Sarasota in 1940 when he was five years old. He was the one of the first black bankers in S...
Gwendolyn Atkins and Henrietta Gayles, the First African American Public Health Nurses in Sarasota
Henrietta Gayles and Gwendolyn Atkins were the first and second African American public health nurse in the Sarasota. Interviewer Vickie Oldham and Mr...
Lymus Dixon Shares Memories of Sarasota, The Selbys and life in Newtown
Lymus Dixon Jr. will be missed in and outside of the Newtown community. Before his death, we captured a discussion of his life in Newtown, and the dee...