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African Americans in Florida (2019 Essay Contest)

Source: Articles from the Book - African Americans in Florida 
by Maxine D. Jones and Kevin M. McCarthy (Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1993)
Blanche Armwood  1   2   3
Carrie Pittman Meek   1   2
Clara Frye   1   2  
Daniel "Chappie" James   1   2
Abrams Lewis   1  2  
Eartha Mary Magdalene White   1   2  3
Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry   1   2
Harry Kthaw Singletary   1   2   3
Jesse McCrary   1   2
Jonathan Gibbs   1   2
Joseph Hatchett   1   2
JR Lee   1   2
Leander Shaw   1   2
Mary Littlejohn Singleton   1   2
Robert Meacham   1   2
Thomas Fortune   1   2
Two war heroes   1   2 

Emery N. Brown 
born and raised in Ocala, Florida, is an anesthesiologist-statistician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an MIT and Harvard professor who made significant contributions to the advancement of the science and practice of anesthesiology. He was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.