Tia Norfleet
Tia Norfleet is the 1st black female licensed Nascar Driver; 2016.
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Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson was the founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, and has been cited as the “father of black history.”
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Andrea Stewart-Cousins is the 1st black person to lead the New York State Senate; 2018.
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Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett was the 1st black U.S Minister to Haiti; 1869.
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Melanie Levesque is the 1st black to be elected to the New Hampshire State Senate; 2018.
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Tim Scott is a former U.S. representative for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District and the 1st black person to serve in both chambers of Congress; 2010.
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Ella Baker was the primary advisor and strategist of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); 1960’s.
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Walter Burton was the 1st black County sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas; 1869
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Marsai Martin at 14, Hollywood’s youngest executive producer, 2019.
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Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates was the 1st black resort owner in Ulster County in the Catskill Mountains, Peg Leg Bates Country Club in Kerhonkson, New York,; 1951 to 1987.
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