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Newtown Florist Club nearing publication of Black business directory
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Angela Middleton works on her laptop Tuesday, Jan. 19, at the Newtown Florist Club office on DeSota Street in Gainesville. She has been part of an effort with the civil rights group to create a Black business directory for publication next month. - photo by Nick Watson
Gainesville’s civil rights organization, the Newtown Florist Club, is nearing publication of a Black business directory for the area that will demonstrate the “great deal of entrepreneurial activity going on in the Black community,” the group’s executive director The Rev. Rose Johnson said.