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Black History Committee of Orange County, Inc HERITAGE SERIES/SERIE DE PATRIMONIOS BLACKCelebratingCelebrating HISTORY CELEBRANDO LA HISTORIA NEGRA SPONSORED BY THE BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY, INC. bhcoc.com ORANGE COUNTY REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER HERITAGE SERIES BLACKCelebratingCelebrating HISTORY SPONSORED BY THE BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY, INC. bhcoc.com The Orange County Regional History El Centro de Historia Regional del Center is proud to present these stories Condado de Orange se enorgullece en of African American men and women presentar estas historias de hombres y who achieved amazing accomplishments. mujeres afroamericanos por sus asombrosos Their contributions have been woven into logros. Sus contribuciones están entrelazadas the fabric of our state and community’s en el tejido de nuestra historia estatal y comunitaria. Esperamos que sus biografías history. We hope their biographies inspire le inspiren a conocer más acerca de cómo you to learn more about how their legacy su legado continúa siendo parte de nuestra continues to be a part of our everyday vida diaria. lives. CONTENIDOS CONTENTS Wallace “Wally” Amos .........................3 Wallace “Wally” Amos .........................3 Mary Ann Carroll ................................4 Mary Ann Carroll ................................4 Joseph and Wealthy Crooms ..............5 Joseph and Wealthy Crooms ..............5 Napoleon “Nap” Ford..........................6 Napoleon “Nap” Ford..........................6 Jonathan C. Gibbs ................................7 Jonathan C. Gibbs ...............................7 Father Nelson Pinder ..........................8 Father Nelson Pinder ..........................8 Lawrence Silas ......................................9 Lawrence Silas ......................................9 Dr. William Wells .................................10 Dr. William Wells .................................10 Artefacto: Fotografía del Dr. Martin Artifact: Dr. Martin Luther Luther King Jr. .....................................11 King Jr. Photograph ............................11 Artefacto: Pintura de un paisaje por Artifact: Alfred Hair Painting ............11 Alfred Hair ...........................................12 65 E. Central Blvd. • Orlando, FL 32801 407-836-8500 • thehistorycenter.org WALLACE “WALLY” AMOS Born in 1936 Nació en 1936 • Entrepreneur, talent agent • Empresario, agente de talentos ally Amos was born in Tal- ally Amos nació en lahassee, Florida. He is most Tallahassee, Florida. Es well known as the founder of conocido por ser el fundador Wa cookie company called Famous Amos. Wde la compañía de galletas Famous He started his career in the 1960s in Amos. Comenzó su carrera en la the entertainment industry and was a década de los 60 en la industria del successful talent agent who discovered entretenimiento y fue un exitoso Simon & Garfunkel and worked with agente de talentos que descubrió a other superstars. A decade into his Simon & Garfunkel y trabajó con otras entertainment career, he faced financial superestrellas. A diez años de su car- hardships that led him to create the rera en el mundo del entretenimiento, Famous Amos cookie empire, which se enfrentó a dificultades financieras was wildly successful! Today, he is in his que lo llevaron a crear el imperio de eighties and travels as a motivational galletitas Famous Amos, la cual fue speaker advocating children’s literacy. altamente exitosa! Hoy día, en sus ochenta años, viaja como orador DID YOU KNOW? motivacional abogando por la Wally Amos is also an author. alfabetización infantil. He has written ten books! ¿SABÍA USTED? Wally Amos es también un autor. ¡Ha escrito diez libros! History Center Heritage Series 3 MARY ANN CARROLL Born in 1940 Nació en 1940 • Painter • Pintora ary Ann Carroll was born in ary Ann Carroll nació en Georgia and moved to Fort Georgia y se mudó a Fort Pierce, Florida, when she was Pierce, Florida, cuando tenía 8 M8 years old. In the 1960s, she began Maños de edad. En los años 60, comenzó painting with a group of African a pintar con un grupo de artistas af- American artists who would later be roamericanos que luego serían conocidos known as the Florida Highwaymen. They como Florida Highwaymen. Pintaban painted colorful landscapes and traveled paisajes coloridos y viajaban a lo largo del across the state selling their paintings estado vendiendo sus pinturas a oficinas to doctor’s offices, banks, motels, and de médicos, bancos, moteles y otros other small businesses. It was a way establecimientos pequeños. Era una for them to make money during the forma de hacer dinero durante la era Jim Jim Crow era, when job opportunities Crow, cuando las oportunidades para for African Americans were extremely los afroamericanos era extremadamente limited. In 2004, the Highwaymen were limitada. En el 2004, los Highwaymen inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of fueron introducidos al Salón de la Fama Fame. de los Artistas de Florida. DID YOU KNOW? ¿SABÍA USTED? ¡Mary Ann Mary Ann Carroll is the only female Carroll es la única mujer artista Florida Highwaymen artist! componente de los Florida Highwaymen! 4 Celebrating Black History JOSEPH AND WEALTHY CROOMS Joseph, 1880-1957 Wealthy, 1886 -1982 • Educators/Educadores ogether, Joseph and Wealthy untos, Joseph y Wealthy Crooms Crooms founded the first high fundaron la primera escuela school for African Americans in secundaria para afroamericanos TSeminole County. Joseph, from Or- enJ el Condado de Seminole. Joseph, lando, and Wealthy, from Winter Park, de Orlando y Wealthy, de Winter donated land and paid for the Crooms Park, donaron la tierra y pagaron por la Academy to be built in order to bet- construcción de la Academia Crooms ter prepare black students for college. que prepararías estudiantes negros para Today, the academy has won national la universidad. Hoy día, la academia awards and is recognized as one of ha obtenido premios nacionales y es the country’s leading high schools in reconocida como una de las principales technology-based curriculum. Before escuelas secundarias de la nación con un creating the Crooms Academy, Joseph programa de estudios de base tecnológi- and Wealthy Crooms were leaders at ca. Antes de crear la Academia Crooms, the Hopper Academy, the only African Joseph y Wealthy Crooms eran líderes American school in Sanford at the time. en la Academia Hopper, la única escuela afroamericana en Sanford durante esos DID YOU KNOW? tiempos. The Croomses were close to the Hur- ston family and were the godparents of ¿SABÍA USTED? Los Crooms Zora Neale Hurston’s brother Clifford. eran allegados a la familia Hurston y fueron los padrinos de Clifford, el hermano de Zora Neale Hurston. History Center Heritage Series 5 NAPOLEON “NAP” FORD 1927 – 1998 • Educator, Orlando City commissioner • Educador, Comisionado de la Ciudad de Orlando apoleon “Nap” Ford is consid- apoleon “Nap” Ford es consid- ered an Orlando hero. He was erado un héroe de Orlando. Fue an educator for 20 years and educador por 20 años y ense- Ntaught at Jones High School, Winter Nñaba en las Escuelas Secundarias Jones Park High School, and the University y Winter Park, y en la Universidad de of Central Florida. He served on the Florida Central. Sirvió en el Consejo de Orlando City Council for 18 years, la Ciudad de Orlando por espacio de 18 representing District 5. Before coaching años, representando al Distrito 5. Antes youth sports, he was one of the city’s de ser entrenador de equipos deportivos best post-World War II baseball players! juveniles, era uno de los mejor jugadores He played with the Jackie Robinson All- de béisbol de la ciudad luego de la II Stars team in a post-season exhibition Guerra Mundial! Jugó con el Equipo de game at Carter Street Park in 1949. Estrellas Jackie Robinson en un juego de exhibición fuera de temporada en el DID YOU KNOW? Parque de la Calle Carter en 1949. Nap Ford helped Arthur “Pappy” Kennedy win the 1972 election ¿SABÍA USTED? as the first African American Nap Ford ayudó a Arthur “Pappy” elected to the Orlando City Council. Kennedy a ganar las elecciones de 1972 como el primer afroamericano elegido al Consejo de la Ciudad de Orlando. 6 Celebrating Black History JONATHAN C. GIBBS 1821 – 1874 • Florida secretary of state • Secretario de Estado de Florida onathan Clarkson Gibbs was an onathan Clarkson Gibbs fue un activist who fought strongly for activista que luchó ferozmente por African American rights in the los derechos afroamericnos en los añosJ siguientes a la Guerra Civil. Luego de yearsJ after the Civil War. After graduat- ing from college, he became an ordained graduarse de la universidad, fue ordenado minister and traveled throughout the como ministro y viajó a través del sur antes South before settling in Florida to de establecerse en Florida para abogar por advocate for education for African la educación para los afroamericanos. En Americans. In 1868, his influence in the 1868, su influencia en la comunidad captó community caught the eye of Florida’s la atención del gobernador de Florida, governor, Harrison Reed, who appointed Harrison Reed, quien lo nombró como el primer afroamericano en desempeñarse Gibbs to be the first African American como Secretario de Estado de Florida. to serve as Florida’s secretary of state. Gibbs también fue superintendente de Gibbs also served as superintendent instrucción pública e hizo innumerables of public instruction and made many contribuciones al sistema educativo del contributions to the state’s education estado, incluyendo la entrega de libros a la system, including the issuing
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