Living history: Brown recounts student days in FGC Black History speech

  • Rodney Brown, the first African-American student to attend Lake City Junior College, addresses the audience during the 2023 Florida Gateway College Black History Month program as the keynote speaker. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    Rodney Brown, the first African-American student to attend Lake City Junior College, addresses the audience during the 2023 Florida Gateway College Black History Month program as the keynote speaker. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
The descendent of a preacher dragged out of church during services on July 4, 1885, in Columbia County and lynched, later went on to become the first African-American student to attend Lake City…

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