Doris A. Davis
Doris A. Davis was the 1st black female mayor of a U.S. metropolitan city: Compton, California, 1973.
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Dr. James McCune Smith
Dr. James McCune Smith was the 1st formally trained black medical doctor, 1837.
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Ruth Simmons was the 1st black president of an Ivy League institution, Brown, 2001.
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Gracis Real de Santa Teresa de Mose was the 1st free black community, Florida, 1738.
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Harriet Wilson was the 1st black female novelist, Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, 1859.
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Tarea Hall Pittman, civil rights activist, lobbied successfully for the California Fair Employment Practices Act in 1959 and subsequent laws in Arizona, Alaska, and Nevada.
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Elbert “Big Man” Howard was 1 of the 6 original founding members of the Black Panther Party at age 28, 1966.
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Marian Anderson was the 1st black woman invited to sing at the White House, 1986.
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Mary Mahoney was the 1st licensed black nurse in the U.S, 1979.
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Paulette Brown was the 1st black female president of the American Bar Association, 2015.
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