Florida task force assigned to pick location of Black History museum says their process ‘should be respected’

Florida task force assigned to pick location of Black History museum says their process ‘should be respected’

The future home of Florida’s first state-funded Black History museum is once again up for debate, even though a task force that met for nearly a year recommended St. Augustine as the location.

The Black Cowboy Museum Preserves Untold Stories of Western Culture

By Laura Onyeneho Larry Callies didn’t plan to open a museum. But in 2017, he says God gave him a vision to create a space to preserve and showcase the legacy of Black cowboys.  He didn’t know why at the time. What he did know was that Black cowboy history was rarely, if ever, taught in his 1960s segregated school, where he lived in Hungerford, Texas. “I’m a Christian first and a cowboy immediately after,” Callies says. “And I know when God clos…