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First African-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [351] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 345 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [4] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [5] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2]
Near Veracruz in the Bay of Campeche, the English privateers White Lion and Treasurer, operating under Dutch and Savoyard letters of marque and sponsored by the Earl of Warwick and Samuel Argall, attacked the San Juan Bautista, and each took 20-30 of the African captives to Old Point Comfort on Hampton Roads at the tip of the Virginia Peninsula, the first time such a group was brought to ...
Juan Garrido was the first documented African American. Much of what we know about Garrido comes from his probanza de merito, or “proof of merit,” which states that while he was from West ...
Though Casor was the first person who was declared an enslaved person in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him. Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave (or slave for life) in America as punishment for escaping his captors in 1640 ...
First African-American senator from South Carolina: Tim Scott [27] (Also the first African-American to serve both houses of the U.S. Congress.) First African-American woman to be appointed to a seat on the New York Court of Appeals: Sheila Abdus-Salaam. First African-American senator from New Jersey: Cory Booker. 2014
Macon Bolling Allen (born Allen Macon Bolling; August 4, 1816 – October 15, 1894) was an American attorney who is believed to be the first African American to become a lawyer and to argue before a jury, and the second to hold a judicial position in the United States.
Estevanico (c. 1500 –1539), also known as Mustafa Azemmouri and Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first person of African descent to explore North America. He was one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition , along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , Andrés Dorantes de Carranza , and Alonso del Castillo ...