Mobile’s Hidden Figures initiative grew out of Mobile United Leadership Mobile’s Class of 2017 inaugural Diversity and Inclusion team to raise awareness of diverse community members who strive to be their personal best and serve as role models for youth, foster collaborative relationships, and develop community partnerships that reflect the strength and positive character of the city. Seeking to tell the fuller story of contributions by Mobile’s hidden figures with an emphasis on diversity and inclusiveness, the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail of Mobile Board of Directors and the Mobile Arts Council created an inspirational space in Downtown Mobile featuring a mural of diverse Mobilians whose achievements have often gone overlooked or unrecognized. Among those highlighted are Dr. Regina Benjamin, who served as the 18th U.S. Surgeon General and a Vice Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, founded and leads the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, received Pope Benedict XVI’s Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice papal cross, the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights, and recognition as a MacArthur Fellow; Major General J. Gary Cooper, who during the Vietnam War became the first African-American to command a Marine Corps infantry company, later served in the Alabama Legislature, as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, and as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica before returning to Mobile to chair Commonwealth National Bank; and Dr. Lonnie Johnson, an inventor and engineer who developed advanced ceramic battery technology, created a solid state engine that converts heat directly into electricity, worked on the Stealth Bomber program and power sources for the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Cassini mission to Saturn, and invented the SuperSoaker water gun.