Black Firsts Archives - Orlando Memory

Events

Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings Presents His Oral History at Orlando Remembered, February 2021

Mayor Jerry L. Demings is the fifth Mayor of Orange County, and is the first African-American to lead the office. Mayor Demings became Orlando’s first African-American police chief in 1998. He was elected as the first African-American Orange County Sher ... Read more

Places

Oral History Interview with the Honorable Mable Butler, Part I of II

Book cover for 1820 Mable Butler Avenue by The Honorable Mable Butler with a photo of her on the cover. The Honorable Mable Butler was the first African American female to be elected to the Orlando City Council and the first African American female elec ... Read more