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"Men of Lakeland in their Sunday finest, including Chesley Mack (seated right) and Delarce "Lock" Dory (standing right)."

Standing left to right are Arthur Brooks, Benjamin Briscoe, unknown, Delarce Dory. Seated are Rev. Mosley and Chesley Mack.

Located in the western section of Lakeland, on Lakeland Road near Rhode Island Ave., the Elks Home was owned and operated by the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an organization created in 1899 in answer to the exclusion of African…

J. Chesley Mack, sometimes referred to as the unofficial mayor of Lakeland, operated Mack’s Market on Rhode Island Avenue. It was a general store with an ice cream counter and billiard parlor on the main floor, and rental apartments on the second…

"...the community was actually family. As I grew older, we learned that some of us were closer to their family than we realized! "

We have chosen this photo for its representation of racist and white supremacist ideologies that persist among us. While this photo holds the faces of young men in 1969, the year it appeared in the student yearbook. It also highlights the way these…