“They used to hang there, so everyone could see that strong black men and women ran this place with pride,” Bumbray said.įor Grimes, the curator of the Newtown Historical Gallery, the portrait is more than just a photograph. The portraits of Floyd and all the board of directors are also gone from the main entrance. New medical equipment was purchased, and dozens of new employees were hired.
The two companies that have owned the facility since have made a number of changes to Crossbreeze Care Center over the years, Bumbray said. Floyd Sunshine Manor in 2012 to help improve the two other facilities next door, Sunshine Meadows and Sunshine Village. agent, is the chairman of the nonprofit organization that used to run the nursing home. George Bumbray also didn’t know how Floyd’s portrait ended up in the trash. A receptionist who answered the phone on Thursday said she didn’t know anything about the portrait and said that “we aren’t even named J.H. It changed hands again in 2017.Ĭrossbreeze’s administrators did not return a request for comment. The 101-bed nursing home was sold to a Miami-based company almost a decade ago. Floyd Sunshine Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, now called Crossbreeze Care Center, is under new management. It isn’t clear why or how Floyd’s portrait ended up in the trash. For them to just throw it in the garbage is worse than what I can imagine.” “There are people in this community who would have taken it and found it a home.”Ītkins called it a “total disrespect and disregard for this community. “Why didn’t someone not ask why didn’t they talk to somebody?” said Shaw. Atkins and Shaw were shocked when they saw the portrait. He called former Sarasota mayor Fredd Atkins and City Commissioner Willie Shaw. There’s even a historical marker with his name on it not far from the nursing home. There are newspaper clippings of Floyd all over his gallery. The man who saved it didn’t know who Floyd was. The gallery, a museum of sorts, pays homage to the expansive history of Sarasota’s oldest black community. and taken to Grimes, who runs the Newtown Historical Gallery on Osprey Avenue in Sarasota, Grimes said. “Some people just do not see the value in who black people are.”įloyd’s portrait was retrieved from the trash at Crossbreeze Care Center on 1755 18th St. “They just casually threw it away,” said Jetson Grimes, an entrepreneur and community organizer. That’s why so many were outraged when Floyd’s 16-by-20 portrait was recently found in a waste bin of the nursing home that once bore his name. Floyd taught carpentry at Booker High School and built houses and businesses when his white counterparts refused to do so.īecause the city’s segregation laws barred the black community from nursing homes when they became too ill or infirm to care for themselves, Floyd raised money and, in 1957, broke ground on Newtown’s first senior care facility. Floyd built three churches in Sarasota’s historic African American community.
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