Tallahassee Black History

4. He was the first governor from the South to promote ending segregation
13. Famu student who worked as a voting rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
14. helped start the Tallahassee bus Boycott refusing to leave their seat
15. President of Florida A&M University (1985 to 2001)
17. Local music club with performances by BB King and many more
18. Civil rights “power couple” and graduates of FAMU
21. was one of the first African-Americans to move into the Myers Park neighborhood.
22. Tallahassee’s first Black political candidate to run for office since Reconstruction

1. was the director of the noted Florida A&M University Marching "100"
2. the first Black woman to be elected to the Leon County Commission in 1990
3. Principal of Lincoln Academy
5. site used to store overflow during 1963 protests
6. a freedom driver, voter registrant, refreshment preparer and server
7. Led the Tallahassee bus Boycott
8. FAMU students who led CORE protests
9. Tallahassee civil rights museum
10. helped start the Tallahassee bus Boycott refusing to leave their seat
11. was the first African-American Surgical Nursing Supervisor at TMH
12. advocated for the appointment of Black judges to state circuit courts and to the Supreme Court
16. vicar of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, a site of many Youth NAACP and civil rights meetings, and Episcopal Chaplain at FAMU
19. operated a carpool service to provide transportation for African-Americans.
20. Tallahassee lost black neighborhood