|
|
Civil Rights Leader (1914 - 1980)
The Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele was pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church in Tallahassee and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., in the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. He organized the Tallahassee bus boycott by setting up a station wagon pool for black patrons, eventually ending segregated seating. "I'd rather walk in dignity than ride in humiliation," Steele proclaimed. Fittingly, the new Tallahassee city bus terminal bears his name and displays a statue of this frail, yet determined minister.
|
|
|
|
|
Home
