Model, Katiti Kironde, became the first Black woman on the cover of Glamour, the magazine’s best-selling issue of all time in 1968.

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Philip Downing (1857-1934) designed and patented the modern day letter box in 1891, the predecessor to the modern mail box.

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Alice Childress, 1916 – 1994, novelist, playwright, and actress. The only black woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades. She formed an off-Broadway Union for actors.

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Alexander Miles (1838 – 1918) was the first person awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors in 1887.

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Janet Emerson Bashen became the first black woman to obtain a software patent after creating, LinkLIne, to assist with web-based Equal Employment Opportunity investigations in 2007.

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Richard Spikes (1878 – 1963) was the first person to hold a patent for an automatic gear shift for cars in 1932.

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Model, Darine Stern (1947 – 1994) , became the first black woman on the cover of Playboy in 1971.

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Singer and entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. (1925 – 1990) became the first black man to land the cover of GQ in 1967.

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Model, Naomi Sims (1948 – 2009), was the first black woman on the cover of Ladies Home Journal in 1968.

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Elbert Frank Cox (1895-1969) was the first black person to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Cornell in 1925.

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