University of Oregon, B.A., Sociology and General Science. My petition for Jacksonville: May we walk in the Spirit like the charismatic Sojourner Truth and act with the civic righteousness of Frederick Douglass. Honor the memories of Martin Delany, Robert Smalls, Joseph Rainey, Blanche Bruce, PBS Pinchback, Harriet Tubman, Hiram Revels, Robert Elliot, Robert DeLarge, Jefferson Long, Benjamin Turner, and many more. In our own State, let us never forget the matchless, courageous, exceptional, and extraordinary contributions of the Honorable Josiah T. Walls to the greatness of our Florida heritage. A slave, soldier, farmer, Freedmen's Bureau agent, delegate to the 1868 State Constitutional Convention, state Legislator and Senator, three term U.S. Congressman who survived a harrowing Klan assassination attempt, Mayor of Gainesville, lawyer, owner and editor of the New Era newspaper, Alachua County Commissioner and board member of Public Instruction, Director of Farming for the Florida Normal College (now FAMU), even more, Walls was a peerless Floridian, second to none. . . . . May we redeem the heroic sacrifices of these freemen and former slaves who gave credibility to the promise of America's Declaration that "All men are created equal." They, too, were visionary pioneers of the Grand Old Party as well as its seminal inspiration. So may it be again.
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