River City Rising
Voices
River City Rising producers plan to conduct on-camera interviews with many of the men and women involved in the Consolidation efforts, the Local Government Study Commission (which resulted in the "Blueprint for Improvement") and the 1974 Jacksonville Community Planning Conference at Amelia Island. We also will interview those in government, civic and business leadership in the years since to learn how this pivotal move remains relevant today and into Jacksonville's future.
Interviewees may include but are not limited to:
- Former Mayor Hans Tanzler
- Former Mayor Ed Austin
- Former Circuit Court Judge William Durden, the first general counsel of consolidated government
- Former Mayor Jake Godbold
- Former Mayor John Delaney
- Former City Council President Homer Humphries
- Mayor John Peyton
- Attorney Jim Rinaman
- Former JEDC Executive Director Mike Weinstein
- Former Mayor Lou Ritter
- Former Mayor Tommy Hazouri
- Attorney Bill Birchfield
- Former WJXT Editorial Director Norm Davis
- Former WJXT Editorial Director Harry Reagan
- Former Florida State Legislator and civil rights activist Willye Dennis
- Former City Council Member and women's rights pioneer Nancie Crabb
- Former Florida State Legislator and education philanthropist Frederick Schultz
- Civil rights leaders and former Mayoral Administrative Aid Alton Yates
- Former City Council Member Gwendolyn Yates
- Jacksonville Urban League President Richard Danford
- Haskell Co. Chairman and former DDA Member Preston Haskell
- Former Florida Senator Betty Holzendorf
- Jacksonville Human Rights Commission Executive Director Charlene Taylor Hill
- Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce President Wally Lee
*Photo courtesy Homer Humphries
