Editing Quincy, Florida (section)

===Race relations===
Quincy was home to Dunbar High School.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Narrative of A. I. Dixie & Samuel Dixie | url=https://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/community/text3/dixieinterviews.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219171314/http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/community/text3/dixieinterviews.pdf | archive-date=2007-12-19}}</ref>{{Relevance inline|discuss=This sentence needs more context. What was the Dunbar High School? What does it have to do with Race Relations?|date=October 2024}} It also had a [[Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia]] Lodge that was attacked, burned, and members murdered by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] reportedly because members were required to pay poll taxes and register to vote.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.ucsc.edu/2005/02/642.html | title=New book documents first statewide civil rights movement in Florida }}</ref>

====Lynchings====
In 1929, Will Larkins was accused of an attack on a white 13 year old Quincy school girl, for which he was quickly indicted.<ref>"QUINCY NEGRO IN JAIL HERE" ''Tallahassee Democrat'', November 8, 1929, Fri. • p. 1; "GIRL ATTACKED ON WAY TO HOME" ''The Miami Herald'', November 9, 1929, Sat., p. 3.</ref> As Larkins was being transferred he was taken by a mob of 40 masked men from Sheriff Gregory of Gadsden county,<ref>"LARKINS WAS TAKEN FROM SHERIFF ON WAY TO JAX" ''Pensacola News Journal'', November 10, 1929, Sun. • p. 1.</ref> near [[Madison, Florida|Madison]] and [[Live Oak, Florida|Live Oak]]. When he was kidnapped by the mob he was being taken to the Duval county jail in a series of moves that newspapers claimed were for his safe keeping.<ref>"QUINCY NEGRO IN JAIL HERE" ''Tallahassee Democrat'', November 8, 1929, Fri. • p. 1.</ref> After his capture by the mob Larkins was carried back to Quincy, near the railroad grade crossing, shot to death and hanged with wire,<ref>"NEGRO LYNCHED IN FLORIDA BY MOB" ''Albuquerque Journal'', November 10, 1929, Sun. • p. 1.</ref> his body was then dragged through the street tied to an automobile and burned at the area where the mob thought the accused committed his crime.<ref>"Lynch Negro Charged With Attack on 12 Year Old Girl" ''The Tribune'', Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1929, Mon., p. 1.</ref> Though Governor [[Doyle E. Carlton|Carlton]] promised an inquiry and investigators were put on the case in late 1929, no mention of Will Larkins, except for the [[NAACP]] lynching lists of 1929, is made again in newspapers of the time. Larkins was the third man lynched in Florida that year.<ref>"Carlton Promies Inquiry" ''The Tampa Tribune'', November 12, 1929, Tue., p. 1.</ref>

In 1941, A. C. Williams was accused of robbery and the attempted rape of a 12-year-old white girl. The account of the details makes the accusation very improbable, but Williams did not live long enough to be tried for the crime. He was kidnapped from jail by a group of white men, and although they both shot him and hanged him, Williams survived. After learning he was alive, the sheriff formed a search party. His family was aware the sheriff had been involved in the lynching, and hid him. Williams needed medical attention and since the hospitals in the Quincy area would not treat a black person, he needed to be transported to [[Florida A&M University]] in Tallahassee. The following day a group of masked men kidnapped him from the ambulance and killed him. His body was dumped on his mother's porch.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hobbs|first1=Tameka Bradley|title="Hitler Is Here": Lynching in Florida during the Era of World War II|url=http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:182219/datastream/PDF/view|access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hobbs|first1=Tameka|title=Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida|year=2016|publisher=University Press of Florida |isbn=9780813062396}}</ref>

====Resistance to Jim Crow====
In the 1920s, blacks in Quincy including A. I. Dixie repeatedly tried to form political organizations and vote, and protest brutal labor conditions, but were suppressed by violence from whites. Dixie was flogged repeatedly for his efforts. Later, in 1964, Dixie hosted [[Congress of Racial Equality]] student activists, while his daughter Linda organized a sit-in, and Jewell Dixie became the first African American to run for Gadsden County Sheriff.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/2470 |title=African-American Resistance to Jim Crow in the South |first=Paul |last=Ortiz|date=November 30, 2001 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/slavery/FHQ-July-1976.pdf |title=Slave Unrest in Florida |first=Ray |last=Granade |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly | date=July 1976 |pages=18–36}}</ref>