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Great People In Black History
The United States Air Force first African American female general.
The first African American in the United States House of Representatives (1870).
One of the twentieth century's most prominent leaders in Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
Barbara Jordan became the first African American to deliver a Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention.
The first female African American United States Senator and first African American Senator from the Democratic Party.
Four Star General Colin Powell was the first African American Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs and Secretary of State.
Sold as a slave at age seven from West Africa, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet to publish a book in 1773
The first female Olympic athlete to win three gold medals in track and field in a single Olympics.
The first African American Nascar Driver and the first African American to win in the Grand National Series.
He took office as the first African American governor of a state since reconstruction on January 13, 1990 in Virginia.
The first African American woman to serve in the capacity of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
NASA astronaut and engineer and member of the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 Crew.
Harold Washington shook up traditional American Politics when he was elected the first Black Mayor of Chicago, Illinois.
Children's rights activist and president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.
Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African American female Cabinet Member.
Maya Angelou was a poet, author, actress, filmmaker, educator and civil rights activist.
Du Bois was a historian, civil rights activist, sociologist, author, editor and Pan-Africanist.
She was an outspoken civil rights leader and veteran Mississippi voter rights worker.
The former Atlanta Mayor was the first African American United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Reginald F. Lewis was the first Black American to build a billion-dollar company.
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