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1945 Council Minutes
Collection
The Apopka Negro Business League Collection
Format
Original typewritten paper slip
Date
1945-05-07
People
Michael Gladden Jr.; Michael Gladden
Location
Apopka, Florida, United States of America.
Historical Background
A set of 1945 council minutes from their May 7, 1945, meeting. This typewritten slip of paper might have been distributed as a newsletter throughout Apopka's Black business district. The minutes detail that a petition was read by Black residents of Apopka protesting an entertainment center that was planned to be constructed across the street from a Church on South Central Ave. They asked the council to withdraw the permit granted for this type of building. The writer ends the minutes with a simple explanation; because there was no zoning ordinance, it was decided that the council had no authority to stop the construction of this building.
