Famous Quotes
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Holds the most Grammy Awards of all times
Beyoncé
The first Black judge in Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in Florida State Court
Judge George Edgecomb
Inventor of the first automatic three-way traffic signal system
Garrett Morgan
"Life is not a spectator sport"
Jackie Robinson
Holds the all-time scoring record in the National Basketball Association.
Lebron James
The first Black female judge on the Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
The first Black to publish a book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in 1773
Phillis Wheatley
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
The female that holds the most major tennis slams in the open era
Serena Williams
The first Black female federal judge in Florida
Judge Mary Scriven
The “Father of Black History” was the second Black to graduate from Harvard with a doctorate degree, and is credited with being one of the first scholars to study and research the history of African Americans.
Carter G. Woodson
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress"?
Frederick Douglass
Most decorated female gymnast in World Championship history with 25 World Championship medals
Simone Biles
The last Black judge appointed by a Florida Governor in Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
Judge Jessica Costello
The U.S. President that declared February Black History Month
President Gerald Ford
"if not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
Senator John Lewis
By 2017, considered the most influential female in the world
Oprah Winfrey
The first Black judge to serve on a Federal Court of Appeals court in the Deep South
Judge Joseph Hatchett
In 1956, the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School.
Lila Fenwick