Black icons have made history in Palm Beach County

By Michelle Quigley

Thomas L. Jefferson, Joseph Wiley Jenkins, C. Spencer Pompey, Joseph N. Bernadel, Ulysses B. Kinsey, Solomon D. Spady, Cracker Johnson, Eva Mack, Edward Rodgers, Louise Buie, M.A. Hall Williams, Ineria Hudnell, Freddie Stebbins Jefferson, and Vera Farrington are people who have made a difference in our community.

Among them are Florida’s first black female mayor, the king of black West Palm Beach in the 1920s, the county’s first black chief judge, one of the first black doctors in Palm Beach County, and the first black woman on The Palm Beach Post editorial board. Two of them have schools named after them, one a bridge, and another a post office.

Click here to see a photo gallery and read the stories of these local black icons.

Tags: African Americans, Black history month