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This guided tour will explore the “4 Pillars”of the black community that helped shape this city Fabric and culture around the south. In a low speed golf car, we will safely cruise historic neighborhoods and explore remnants of the Harlem Renaissance. Jacksonville has a historic rich Black American story to illuminate. We’ll learn about those citizens from the first coast area who contributed to art, literature, music, religion and activism that yielded a movement of Artisans and Activists, Builders, and Entrepreneurs that helped give birth to the “”Harlem of The South””.On your tour we will pass by modern mural exhibitions that depict black leaders, see memorials of interesting individuals, read placards and learn about who helped to shape a national labor movement. We’ll stop at Old Stanton School; Florida’s first school for black children, and hear about the city’s leaders that influenced the Harlem Renaissance, labor movements and “The Great Migration” of black Americans from the south.This tour dives into the cites namesake and its other city founders; we will cruise around exploring history as we enjoy views of the St. Johns River. We’ll learn how freedom was just across the river for runaway enslaved persons seeking refuge into old East Spanish Florida. We will drive past monuments from the time of the Civil War time period, Reconstruction, the Great Fire, the “”Jim Crow”” era, the 1960’s Civil Rights movement, and into today.