North Florida Community College is a public community college in Madison, Florida, United States. It is part of the Florida College System. It enrolls around 1,200 students and serves six rural counties in North Florida: Madison, Hamilton, Lafayette, Jefferson, Suwannee, and Taylor.The school was founded as North Florida Junior College in 1957, with classes beginning the following year. It merged with the historically black Suwannee River Junior College in 1966. Its current name was adopted in 1995.Historythumb In 1957 the Florida Legislature authorized expansion of Florida's junior college system. North Florida Junior College, for white students, and Suwannee River Junior College, for black students, were founded simultaneously. In March 1958, Marshall W. Hamilton was appointed President, and the first classes were held in September 1958. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which buttressed the Brown v. Board of Education of 1954 prohibiting racial discrimination in schools, Suwannee River Junior College was closed. Most faculty moved to North Florida Junior College, but although North Florida was now open to them, few black students did.
