A publishing of more than 140 places that reflects African Americans' significance to the history of Florida.
Florida Black Heritage Trail
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Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
The Florida artist George Snow Hill renders scenes from the lumber industry in which many African-Americans toiled.
Cypress Logging
100
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
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This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
Tribal artifacts from the west coast of Africa and Guinea are displayed here in a permanent collection.
What is Black Heritage Museum
200
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
This institution of higher education in Daytona was opened by an educator, administrator, presidential adviser and civil rights leader.
What is Bethune-Cookman College
200
The founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
W.E.B. Dubois
200
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
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Author of "Their Eyes Were Watching". Born in 1903 in in Eatonville, Fla., the town that now celebrates her life with an annual festival.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
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Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
300
Built in 1909 as a Baptist church, this building currently houses fine art, but from 1927 to 1963 it was Sanibel Island's only school for black children.
What is the Schoolhouse Gallery
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Known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
300
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
400
Oldest plantation house in Florida where slaves were smuggled to slaveholders across the Georgia border. Remains of slave cabins and the master's house are on view to this date.
What is Kingsley Plantation
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Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
400
Known as the "Negro fort," this citadel were runaway slaves and Seminoles were holed up, under the orders of President Andrew Jackson, was attacked and destroyed. Only 50 of the 320 settlers survived.
What is Fort Gadsen
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Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
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Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
500
Legend has it the owner of this home purchased the freedom of slaves and helped them start new lives as free men and women.
What is the Julee Cottage
500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500
On this site, 5,500 Union troops, including three African-American infantry regiments, confronted 5,200 Confederate troops in Florida's major Civil War battle.
What is Olustee Battlefield
500
The city and state were a racially motivated bomb attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is Birmingham, Alabama
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Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?