Gummy bears are some of the simplest candies to make at home. At their core, they are just 4 ingredients: water, sugar, gelatin, and flavoring. Water and gelatin, when blended, heated, and cooled, naturally form a chewy candy, so no expensive equipment or odd ingredients are needed.
Even though the Collingsdale, Pa., cemetery contains the bodies of several black luminaries -- including civil rights leader Octavius Valentine Catto and opera singer Marian Anderson -- Williams didn't come for any of these big names. He was there to see John Taylor, the first African American to win Olympic gold. Taylor was a college graduate and a star athlete, recognized for his success even by then president Theodore Roosevelt. But in 1908, the same year he medaled at the Olympic games in London, he died of typhoid pneumonia.
The initial time a woman made the box was in 1934, with famous female test pilot Elinor Smith having the honors. Babe Zaharias in 1935 was the first woman athlete on a Wheaties box, as she was a standout in the Los Angeles Olympics in track and field. Jesse Owens, in 1936, became the first black athlete on the box after his astounding display at the Berlin Olympics. The first woman athlete to find herself on the front of the Wheaties box was Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton in 1984.