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Activist Ben Frazier is arrested in December of 2022 at City Hall for refusing to yield his time while speaking about removing Confederate monuments from Springfield Park. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
October 8, 2024

Effort to rename Confederate Street after late activist fails in Jacksonville City Council 

In a 10-7 vote, Jacksonville’s City Council decided against renaming the Springfield street after the late local civil rights activist…

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The late Ben Frazier speaks in mid-January 2023, pressing City Council members to get rid of the city’s Confederate monuments. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today
August 1, 2024

Downtown street could be renamed to honor Ben Frazier

Legislation before Jacksonville City Council would rename Confederate Street as Frazier Place.…

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Kelly Frazier attends a memorial service for her father in June 2023. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
August 3, 2023

Ben Frazier’s daughter assumes reins of Northside Coalition

Kelly Frazier has been a member of the Northside Coalition since her father founded it.…

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June 25, 2023

Jacksonville civil rights activist Ben Frazier dies at 73

Ben Frazier, once a trailblazing journalist who became an advocate for racial justice, has died.…

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Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in St. Augustine in June 1964. He was arrested in St. Augustine that month, alongside others from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, while attempting to eat in a segregated restaurant. | State Archive of Florida 
January 12, 2023

Jacksonville officials, local civil rights leaders continue to celebrate MLK. Separately. 

Friday will mark the fifth straight year Jacksonville will have separate breakfasts honoring Martin Luther King.…

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Jacksonville activists Ben Frazier, center, and Bob Rutter, right, are removed from the chambers by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Tuesday night. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
December 14, 2022

PHOTO ESSAY | ‘Take them down!’

Activists with the Northside Coalition and other civil rights groups implored the Jacksonville City Council Tuesday to remove the Confederate…

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A sheriff's deputy handcuffs Ben Frazier January 4, 2022. | Claire Heddles, WJCT News
January 9, 2022

OPINION | Ben Frazier makes his point

A week ago, the world hadn’t heard of Ben Frazier. The president of the Northside Coalition was known locally, but…