TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - A Tallahassee reverend who organized a boycott that ended segregation on Tallahassee city buses is among three inductees in Florida's inaugural Civil Rights Hall of Fame.

Governor Rick Scott named the Rev. C.K. Steele as one of the first inductees.

In 1956, Steele led a boycott of the city-run bus system. Tallahassee's new bus terminal is named in his honor.

Steele was also a founding member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He died in 1980.

Governor Rick Scott also named Mary McLeod Bethune and Claude Pepper to the hall on Monday.

Bethune established the school now known as Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach.

Pepper was best known as the nation's foremost champion of the elderly.

The Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame honors individuals who were born in Florida or adopted the state as their home.

They will be honored with plaques to hang on a wall of honor in the Capitol rotunda.


(The Associated Press and the Florida Department of State contributed to this report.)