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Its former campus is now part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. [27] Suwannee River Junior College: Madison: Florida: 1959 1966 Public One of eleven black junior colleges founded in Florida after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, in an attempt to show that separate but equal higher education facilities existed in Florida.
By 1810, 75 percent of all blacks in Delaware are free, and 7.2 percent of blacks in Virginia are free. [31] 1791. February – Major Andrew Ellicott hires Benjamin Banneker, an African-American draftsman, to assist in a survey of the boundaries of the 100-square-mile (260 km 2) federal district that would later become the District of Columbia.
First African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era: Jackie Robinson (Brooklyn Dodgers). [24] (See also: Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884) First African-American Major League Baseball player in the American League: Larry Doby (Cleveland Indians). First African American consensus college All-American basketball player: Don ...
First African-American consensus college All-American basketball player: Don Barksdale [176] First comic book produced entirely by African-Americans: All-Negro Comics [ 177 ] First African-American full-time faculty member at a predominantly white law school: William Robert Ming ( University of Chicago Law School ) [ 37 ]
Following the 1891 season, the Ansonia Cuban Giants, a team composed of African-American players, were expelled from the Connecticut State League, the last white minor league to have a Black team. The Brooklyn Dodgers broke the 63-year color line when they started future Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson at first base on Opening Day , April 15, 1947.
As of 26 October 2024, 1223 players have played rugby union for New Zealand's national team, known since 1905 as the All Blacks.The first New Zealand representative match was played in May 1884 against a Wellington XV before the New Zealand team departed for their tour of New South Wales. [1]
Joe Dumars, former President of Basketball Operations of the Detroit Pistons; Wayne Embry, first African-American General manager and team president in NBA history, 2x NBA Executive of the Year [2] Rube Foster, former executive of the Chicago American Giants; Rod Higgins, former president of Basketball Operations for the Charlotte Bobcats
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.