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1929 Business League Announcement
Collection
The Apopka Negro Business League Collection
Format
Original typewritten paper slip
Date
1929-04-25
People
Michael Gladden Jr.; Michael Gladden
Zack Turk
Location
Apopka, Florida, United States of America.
Historical Background
An announcement from the Apopka Negro Business League dating from their April 25, 1929, meeting. This typewritten slip of paper might have served as a newsletter that would have been distributed across the Apopka Black community. The minutes serve as an announcement that a respected Black elder, Zack Turk, had died at Orange General Hospital the last Friday leading up to this meeting. Mr. Turk's wife had died two months prior.
Mr. Turk was known as "Old Turk" to residents and, according to the writer, enjoyed riding his horse and wagon along the Orlando Highway, where he would successfully sell chickens and eggs to wandering customers. Zack Turk was originally born in Auburn, Alabama, and served as one of the first trustees of the Booker T. Washington Institute (what would become Tuskegee University). He was also directly involved in the establishment of Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School, alongside Mr. Hungerford himself.
