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- First US Poet Laureate
- Maya Angelou
- First to win the Pulitzer fro Poetry
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- First to win the Pulitzer for Literature
- Alice Walker
- First to win the Nobel for Literature
- Toni Morrison
- First to win the Nobel Peace Prize
- Ralph Bunche
- First Singer at the Metropolitan Opera
- Marian Anderson
- First Miss America
- Vanessa Williams
- First Grammy Winner
- Harry Belafonte
- First Female Grammy winner
- Ella Fitzgerald
- First US Ambassador to the UN
- Andrew Young
- First Supreme Court Justice
- Thurgood Marshall
- First Surgeon General
- Jocelyn Elders
- First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Colin Powell
- First Congresswoman
- Shirley Chisholm
- First Woman Senator
- Carol Mosley-Braun
- First to reach the North Pole
- Matthew Henson
- First in Space
- Leon Bluford, Jr.
- First female in space
- Mae Jemeson
- First starring role on TV
- Diahann Carroll (for Julia)
- First coach in any professional sport
- Bill Russell
- First MLB coach
- Frank Robinson
- First All-American athlete
- Paul Robeson
- First Heavyweight boxing champ
- Jack Johnson
- First Masters golf champion
- Tiger Woods
- First Wimbleton winner
- Althea Gibson
- First MLB player (19th century)
- Moses Fleetwood Walker
- First MLB player (20th century)
- Jackie Robinson
- First AL baseball player
- Nate "Sweetwater" Clifton
- First NBA player
- Nate "Sweetwater" Clifton
- First patent holder (for corn harvester)
- Henry Blair
- First Mayor of Cleveland
- Carl Stokes
- First Mayor of Chicago
- Harold Washington
- First Mayor of NYC
- David Dinkins
- First Mayor of LA
- Tom Bradley
- First Mayor of Detroit (5 times)
- Coleman Young
- First female mayor of Washington, DC
- Sharon Pratt Kelly
- First Mayor of Atlanta
- Maynard Jackson
- First to enroll at the University of Mississippi
- James Meredith
- First Flying Squadron
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Man killed at Boston Massacre
- Crispus Attucks
- Female preacher, abolitionist, and writer
- Sojourner Truth
- Orator and former slave
- Frederick Douglas
- Preacher who led 1831 insurrection against slavery
- Nat Turner
- Underground railroad "conductor"
- Harriet Tubman
- Male Tennis Champion
- Peter Bailey
- Playwright born in Harlem 1924
- James Baldwin
- "One O'clock Jump" band leader
- Count Basie
- President of SCLC after MLK
- Ralph Abernathy
- Founder of Ebony and Jet
- John Johnson
- Former Urban League head and Clinton advisor
- Vernon Jordan
- Founder of Tuskegee Institute
- Booker T Washington
- Peanut cultivator
- George Washington Carver
- Aid in developing blood banks
- Charles Drew
- Voice of Darth Vader
- James Earl Jones
- Rat Pack member
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Chairwoman of Congressional Black Caucus
- Maxine Waters
- Texas Congresswoman 1972-78
- Barbara Jordan
- Female figure skater
- Debi Thomas
- Miss America, 1990
- Debbye Turner
- Rainbow Coalition leader
- Jesse Jackson
- OJ defense attorney
- Johnie Cochran
- Prosecutor at OJ trial
- Christopher Darden
- CNN Washinton anchor
- Bernard Shaw
- Founder of American Dance Theatre
- Alvin Ailey
- Soprano at Metropolitan Opera 1976-85
- Leontyne Price
- NAACP founder 1909
- WEB DuBois
- NAACP representative murdered in Mississippi 1965
- Medgar Evers
- Medal awarded by NAACP
- Spingarn Medal
- Fund founded at the Tuskegee Institute 1944
- United Negro College Fund
- Nationalist leader assassinated in 1965
- Malcolm X
- Nation of Islam leader
- Louis Farrakhan
- Huey Newton and Bobby Seal's party, founded 1966
- Black Panthers
- Black Panthers leader and newspaper editor
- Eldridge Cleaver
- He coined the term "black power"
- Adam Clayton Powell
- City of 1955 bus boycott
- Montgomery
- Woman who initiated the boycott
- Rosa Parks
- GW Bush's National Security Advisor
- Condoleezza Rice
- City high school integrated 1956
- Little Rock Central High
- University integrated in 1962
- University of Alabama