Gloria Dean Randall Scott

Gloria Dean Randall Scott was the 1st black president of girl scouts; USA, 1975.

Alexander Lucius Twilight

Alexander Lucius Twilight was the 1st known black to graduate from an American college; Middlebury College in Vermont, 1823.

Josh White was the 1st black person to give a White House Command Performance, 1941.

Maya Angelou was the first Black female cable car conductor in San Francisco in 1944, when she was 16 years old.

Halle Berry, first black woman to win an Academy Award for best actress, 2002. As of 2018, the only black actress to do so.

The Princess and the Frog is the first Disney movie to feature a black female lead, 2009.

Clarence Page first black columnist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1989.

Duke Ellington, first black to appear on a coin by himself, 2009, on a quarter in the District of Columbia.

Karen Bass, first black woman to be elected as speaker of the house on a state level, California, 2008.

Lena Waithe became the first black woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing, 2017.