Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Anna Arnold Hedgeman was the only woman on the organizing committee for the 1963 March on Washington and was another “hidden figure”.
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Ludmya Bordeau “Mia” Love is the 1st black republican woman to serve in the House of Representatives, Utah; 2014.
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Ashmun Institute was the 1st school of higher learning for young black men, Pennsylvania; 1854.
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Claudette Colvin in 1955 at age 15 refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks.
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Jonathan Jasper Wright was the 1st black State Supreme Court Justice, South Carolina; 1870.
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Aaliyah first artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 based solely on airplay in 2000. She died in 2001.
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Frank E. Petersen was the 1st black U.S. Marine Corps aviator, 1952.
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Carol Moseley Braun became the 1st black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.
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Matt Baker was the 1st known black comic book artist; Jumbo Comics #69 for Fiction House, 1944.
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Tracy K. Smith 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, 2017-2019.
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