Charley Pride is best remembered as a groundbreaking country music star, but before Nashville, he was chasing a very different dream: professional baseball. Pride was born […]

World War II forced America to rethink who could serve, and women were ready. In 1942, the WAAC, later known as the WAC, and the Navy’s […]

For Florida, the treaty meant a formal transfer of sovereignty. Spain surrendered its claims to territory east of the Mississippi River, closing a chapter marked by […]

On February 20, 1919, St. Petersburg celebrated the grand opening of one of downtown’s newest showpieces, the Pheil Theater, built by former mayor A.C. Pheil just […]

Born on February 18, 1894, Hubert Whitfield Rutland Sr. was one of St. Petersburg’s most influential entrepreneurs, helping shape downtown through retail, real estate, and banking. […]

On May 6, 1968, more than 200 Black sanitation workers in St. Petersburg walked off the job. They were demanding fair pay and better working conditions, […]

Vyrle Davis was a pioneering Pinellas County educator who helped reshape public education in St. Petersburg. In 1973, he became the first Black principal of St. […]