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.)
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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
In the era of slavery, some voices used the Bible to justify the capture and sale of human beings, arguing that “God set different Orders and Degrees of Men in the World … some to be High and Honorable, … some to be born Slave, and so to remain during their lives.”
The First African American Pilot for Eastern Airlines
The horrific shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, in northern Broward County on Wednesday afternoon, hit much too close to home for me. I had children who graduated from Douglas, and I helped raise the money for the school’s football stadium.