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First African-American woman to graduate from (and to attend) the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, graduated in 1980 [274] [275] [276] First African-American woman to join the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live: Yvonne Hudson; First African-American-oriented cable television network: BET [277]
New Jersey had allowed black residents to vote if they met residency and property requirements until 1807. [17] And several states of the former Confederacy had allowed black suffrage earlier in Reconstruction ; Louisiana, for example, had elected the nation's first black lieutenant governor , first black mayor , and first black elected member ...
James Webster Smith (June 1850 – November 30, 1876) was an American professor and a cadet at the United States Military Academy.A former slave, Smith became a scholar and is recognized as the first black person appointed to a cadetship at West Point.
First African-American Winter Olympic gold medal winner: Vonetta Flowers (two-woman bobsleigh). (See also: Shani Davis, 2006) First African American to become majority owner of a U.S. major sports league team: Robert L. Johnson (Charlotte Bobcats, NBA) [Note 7] (see also 2001) First African American to hold the #1 rank in tennis: Venus Williams
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
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 ...
He was the first Black person to be named TIME Man of the Year TIME named King as the 1963 “ Man of the Year ," making the civil rights leader the first Black person to receive the honor.
Crispus Attucks, a free Black tradesman, was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre and of the ensuing American Revolutionary War. 5,000 Black people, including Prince Hall, fought in the Continental Army.