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 Junio…