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Lonnie G. Johnson, an aerospace engineer, made a big splash when he invented this popular aquatic toy.
Super Soaker water gun
The nation's most prominent Civil Rights Leader who advanced civil rights for people of color and whose birthday is observed with a Federal holiday the 3rd Monday of January.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
First black teenagers to attend Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 are referred to as:
Little Rock Nine
This singer was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall because of her color. She instead sang at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939: https://youtu.be/mAONYTMf2pk
Marian Anderson
Called the "Moses of Her People", she led others to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
First black Major League Baseball Player
Jackie Robinson
He lived in Tampa Bay and served as a leader to the Black Seminoles. In Spanish he was known as "Juan Caballo".
John Horse
Sharing initials with a famous Hogwarts wizard, he was arrested after courageously defying the Separate Car law which said that white and black citizens had to ride in separate railroad cars.
Homer Plessey
First African American woman to enter space in 1992
Mae C. Jemison
First female self-made millionaire who invented a hair growing lotion
Madam C. J. Walker
Born into slavery, he became a teacher after the Civil War and founded Tuskegee University in 1881.
Booker T. Washington
First African American Secretary of State in Florida
Jonathan C. Gibbs
A poet and playwright, he was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
A poet from Jacksonville, FL, he wrote and composed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black national anthem.
James Weldon Johnson
First black Florida Supreme Court justice born in Clearwater, Florida
Joseph W. Hatchett