Author: Carma Henry

1983, Carmen E. Turner made history as the first African American woman to lead a -transit agency when she became general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

In 1937, Willa Brown became the first African American woman to earn an airplane pilot’s license in the United States. (Bessie Coleman, who had become the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1921, had to go to France to train for and obtain her license.)

They own and operated the first Black taxi service and were members of Mount Hermon AME Church

There was no road to the new segregated beach; Black citizens had to board a boat and shuttle from the mainland across the Intracoastal Waterway to the isolated and undeveloped barrier island south of the Port Everglades inlet which is now called the Von D. Mizell and Eula Johnson State Park.

Big Bertha, Dillard High Schools sole means of transportation for athletes and students

“There was a great deal of bussing for white students, but it was all walking for the Black children,“ Louis Benton recalled.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (Sept. 15, 1852 – Aug. 24, 1889) was a revolutionary in the shoe industry with the invention of the lasting machine.

Matthew “Bud” Waters of Bud’s Shoe Repair Shop

Walking is a great way to get the 150 minutes of moderate exercise we all need every week for good health, but if you want to raise the bar, consider jogging.

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