Bert Williams
Bert Williams was the first black to produce, write, and star in a Broadway production, In Dahomey; 1902.
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Nadja West
Nadja West, highest ranking female to have graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1982.
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Paul Williams was the first black member of the American Institute of Architects ; 1923.
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Queen Mother Moore, born Audley Moore, was the founder of The Republic of New Afrika (RNA); 1968.
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Johnathan Lee Iverson was the first black ringmaster of a major U.S. circus in 1999 at the age of 22 for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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Ida B. Wells Drive is the first Chicago Street to be named after a black woman in 2019. She was a journalist and civil rights activist.
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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable founded the city of Chicago.
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam first black woman reporter at the Washington Post, 1961.
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Tammany Brooks first black Chief of Police, Antioch, California in 2017.
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Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors holds the NBA record for 3 point shots in a game, 14.
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