Tour Spady Museum
Bringing People Together In Celebration of Black History
Museum Hours
TUESday – Saturday 11am – 4pm
Black people arrived in Delray Beach to settle and build their family legacies in the late 1800s. They migrated to this area from the Bahamas and from North Florida and the coastal communities of the Carolinas and Georgia and similar areas.
In the deeply segregated south where Jim Crow laws were in force, entrepreneurship was a necessary part of survival for black people. Delray Beach had a strong and thriving “colored town” since it’s birth.
Visit the Spady Museum to learn about Inside Outside, a solo exhibit by conceptual artist Ives Gabriel (Open Ocotber 22, 2024 – January 6, 2025). A civil rights leader. An inspirational mentor. A stellar resident of Delray Beach. Discover the life and legacy of Mr. Youngblood, as told through his personal artifacts and archives of The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum. Mr. Youngblood’s biography includes his origin story and the impact his strong leadership had on his community, his neighbors and his people, as a collective. Ozie Franklin Youngblood represents the men of his time and how they rose to meet a historical moment that would influence all who would come after them.
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These pictures depict the thriving establishments in Delray Beach’s “colored town” between the 1900s and the 1950s.
City Tours and Step-On City Tours are available.
Bringing People Together In Celebration of Black History
170 NW 5th Ave
Delray Beach, FL 33444
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The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum’s mission is to expand, preserve and present the culturally diverse history of the Black communities of Palm Beach County.
Bringing People Together In Celebration of Black History.