Legacy
When the City created a new bus terminal, it was named after Rev. Steele and a statue of him (by sculptor David Lowe) was placed on the NE corner of the terminal. At the time it was the only statue of a person in Tallahassee, the state capital.
Florida State University conferred on Steele the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree in 1980 --- the first to an African American, and the first to be bestowed in fifty-six years from that school.
The Bethel Baptist Church in Tallahassee, where Steele was pastor for twenty-eight years, has established a charter school which was named in his and former Governor Leroy Collins' honor: The Steele-Collins Charter School
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)