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Alabama
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Florida
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Detailed explanation-1: -Captain Francisco Menéndez. Formerly enslaved in the British colonies, Captain Francisco Menéndez rose to become the leader of Florida’s first legally sanctioned free Black settlement. Having previously led an enslaved militia for the Spanish at St.
Detailed explanation-2: -Located just north of St. Augustine, Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned community for free Blacks in America. These brave men and women fought to protect St. Augustine for 25 years, across two iterations of the fort, until Spain ceded Florida to England in 1763.
Detailed explanation-3: -Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) The author, best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the pride of Eatonville, the Central Florida city where she grew up that’s also the nation’s first incorporated African-American town.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1968, after a diverse, student-led protest, San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) founded the first Black Studies Department-now known as the Africana Studies Department.