PSA: 05 May 2020: Coach Tate Fund for Land & Housing Targets: Historical Preservation & Restoration of Three Communities within the State of Florida

Coach Tate National Educational Athletic Association Corporation' Coach Tate Fund for Land & Housing is pleased to announce its targeted projects within the State of Florida.

Preservation & Restoration of Historical Land and Housing and build a legacy for our next generation, is a key tenet in the Coach Tate Fund for Land and Housing; to build out the legacy of our local family and a sustainable economic development and security model for the advancement of the local community at large, through new development.

Our Coach Tate Fund Developers visited its first site, in person, and learned of the great opportunity to start, where there is a real NEED to do so, within the indigenous community of peoples, in this case, the African-American Community.

Our 1 Billion Coach Tate Fund's First Phase Funding Goal is 100 Million USA dollars per year, over 10 years, for the distinct purpose of;

The Historical Preservation & Restoration of Land & Property and New Land & Property Development for Indigenous Families, Children and Communities of a multi culture, multilingual, multinational heritage within the State of Florida.

Our Funding Team Members, over the next few weeks, will be calling on our public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, to include our city, county and federal government agencies, and private individuals for cause, to partner with us in this most important community family economic security and development initiative, as we come together for a common cause, "Our People" Our Greatest Asset within our Communities.

All Contributors and Funders enjoy a tax deductible benefit, and more importantly, being a leader by example for a cause bigger than self, all for the greater good of our children, family and communities, today for our tomorrow.

Read on to learn more below:

Our Rich Heritage: A Brief of American Beach, Florida.

American Beach was founded in 1935 by Florida's first black millionaire, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, and his Afro-American Life Insurance Company.[4] The plan was for his employees to have a place to vacation and own homes for their families by the shore.[3] Throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, summers at American Beach were busy with families, churches and children. It was a place where African Americans could enjoy "Recreation and Relaxation Without Humiliation". The beach included hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs as well as homes and other businesses.[5]

American Beach played host to numerous celebrities during this period, including: folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, singer Billie Daniels, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Billy Eckstein, Hank Aaron, Joe Louis, actor Ossie Davis, and Sherman Hemsley . James Brown was actually turned away from performing outside Evans' Rendezvous, a nightclub on the beach. In 1964, American Beach was hit hard by Hurricane Dora, and many homes and buildings were destroyed. The passage of the Civil Rights Act that same year desegregated the beaches of Florida, and American Beach became a less and less popular vacation destination as more African American Jacksonvillians turned to locations nearer their homes.[6]

A.L. Lewis' great-granddaughter MaVynee Betsch, known to locals as the Beach Lady, returned to American Beach in 1977 to fight for its preservation. For years, she planted trees along Lewis street, offered historical tours of the beach, and fought to raise public awareness of the beach and its struggle until her death in September 2005. She wanted to make American Beach a monument to black Americans' determination to overcome the obstacles of the Jim Crow era. As of January 2001, American Beach is listed as a historic site by the National Register of Historic Places.

Learn More about the American Beach, Florida Story by clicking on link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Beach,_Florida

https://www.tpl.org/our-work/american-beach

https://www.nps.gov/timu/learn/historyculture/ambch_history.htm

Enjoy the photos taken at the American Beach, Florida during our recent visit with the local family.

Our Founder & best-selling Book Author, Phrantceena T. Halres, Our 6th Sense & Purpose, the power in knowing who you are and Mrs. Marsha Dean Phelts, best-selling Book Author, and long time community citizen and property owner at American Beach, today, "An American Beach for African Americans. book signing while communing together

Both best-selling authors, generational learning, privately conducting an in person "book-signing" exchange of their books. Phrantceena T. Halres best-selling book "Our 6th Sense & Purpose, the power in knowing who you are, and Mrs. Marsha Dean Phelts, best-selling book "An American Beach for African Americans, both available for purchase at online at Amazon.com.

Order your families copy today, to learn more, by clicking on link below:

https://www.amazon.com/Marsha-Dean-Phelts-American-Americans/dp/B008VQPSDE

https://www.amazon.com/Our-6th-Sense-Purpose-Knowing/dp/1480816302

A few snaps below of captured moments of the island itself, American Beach, during our visit:

Our Rich Heritage: A Brief on The Town of Quincy, Florida

Established in 1828, Quincy is the county seat of Gadsden County, and was named for John Quincy Adams.[8] It is located 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Tallahassee, the state capital. Quincy's economy was based on agriculture, including farming tomatoes, tobacco, mushrooms, soybeans and other crops.

According to The Floridian newspaper, in 1840 before there were public schools anywhere else in the Florida Territory, there were in Quincy the Quincy Male Academy[9] and the Quincy Female Academy.[10] Joshua Knowles published the Quincy Sentinel in Quincy from November 1839 until it relocated to Tallahassee and became the Florida Sentinel in 1841.[11] The paper began publishing in Tallahassee in February or March 1841 as a successor to Quincy Sentinel.[12]

Demographics Historical population

As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 6,982 people, 2,657 households, and 1,830 families residing in the city. The population density was 916.4 inhabitants per square mile (353.8/km2). There were 2,917 housing units at an average density of 382.9 per square mile (147.8/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 31.55% White, 64.15% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 3.22% from other races, and 0.69% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.89% of the population.

Learn More about the Quincy, Florida story by clicking on link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy,_Florida

https://www.florida-backroads-travel.com/quincy-florida.html

https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:175656/datastream/PDF/view

Learn Our Rich Heritage Brief on St. Augustine, Florida: Birthplace of African American History

The rich African American heritage of St. Augustine should cause all history textbooks to be rewritten.

Africans Helped Establish America's Oldest City

When the Spanish conquistador Pedro Menendez founded St. Augustine in 1565, not only were there black members of his crew, but he noted that his arrival had been preceded by free Africans in the French settlement at Fort Caroline, just a few miles north.

Our oldest written records, the Cathedral Parish Archives, list the first birth of a black child here in 1606--thirteen years before many textbooks say that the first blacks on these shores arrived at Jamestown in 1619.

Battle of Fort Mose

The first legally recognized community of ex-slaves was Fort Mose, the northern defense of St. Augustine, founded in 1738 to protect the city from British invasion. In 1740, when General James Oglethorpe attacked from Georgia, it was the Battle of Fort Mose that proved decisive in turning him around and sending him back from where he came. The site of this free black fort is now recognized as a National Historic Landmark and is run by the Florida Park Service. It is considered the focal point for the first Underground Railroad, which ran not from south to north, but rather from the British southern colonies farther south into Spanish Florida, where escaped slaves would be given their freedom.

The End of Slavery

During the Civil War, black St. Augustinians served in both the Union and Confederate armies. Their graves can be found in many of our historic cemeteries. Harriet Tubman, the famed "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, accompanied the Union soldiers who came down the St. Johns River during the war.

Former slaves established the community of Lincolnville in 1866 in the southwest peninsula of St. Augustine. Lincolnville is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in part because of its origins, in part because--given its time of development--it includes the greatest concentration of treasured Victorian architecture in the Ancient City, and in part because it was the launching place for demonstrations that led directly to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The famed abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, spoke here in 1889 at Genovar's Opera House on St. George Street.

St. Augustine's African-American Community

A thriving black business district grew up along Washington Street in the 19th and early 20th century. Frank Butler, the leading businessman, also developed Butler's Beach on Anastasia Island, one of the historic black beaches of Florida from the age of segregation. He also had real estate holdings in West Augustine around the campus of Florida Normal (later Florida Memorial) College, a black school--and St. Augustine's first college-- that was located here from 1918 until 1968. The internationally celebrated novelist Zora Neale Hurston was among its teachers. There is a historic marker at the house at 791 West King Street where Hurston lived.

Learn More about the St. Augustine's, Florida story by clicking on link below:

https://www.visitstaugustine.com/history/black_history/introduction/

https://www.visitstaugustine.com/history/black_history/introduction/black_community.php#marker2

https://www.miamitimesonline.com/lifestyles/st-augustine-home-to-significant-black-history/article_99050e06-e88b-11e6-907e-b32c7833f212.html

It Takes a Village with a Shared Vision and Mission to take action Today:

Learn How you can become a contributor & funder for the Coach Tate Fund for Land & Housing, Historical Preservation & Restoration Team, Today-by contacting:

• Ms. Daphne Gilbert, CTF Fund POC Team member, call her: 904-637-8979 email her at: [email protected];
• Mr. Demetrios Meimaridis, CTF Fund Developer Team member call him: 727-275-0862 or email his at: [email protected]
• or sign up online at www.coachtatefoundation.com.
• If you are a current property owner, and/or investor or seeking to secure beachfront property within these communities, and would like to contact us to be a part of our team, please contact Phrantceena Halres at 904-330-8646 or email her at: [email protected].

Or Mail To: Coach Tate National Educational Athletic Association Corporation d/b/a/ Coach Tate Foundation

C/O Coach Tate Fund for Land & Housing

4150 Belfort Road #551075

Jacksonville, Florida 32255

P.O. Box 551075

Jacksonville, Florida 32255

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