Thurgood Marshall 1st black U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

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Marsha P. Johnson is an LGBTQ activist and transgender woman who helped lead the Stonewall riots, 1969.

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Jane Bolin was the 1st black female judge in the U. S, 1939.

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Sampson McCormick, 1st out, black, gay male comic.

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Sarah E. Goode was the 1st black woman to receive a U.S patent for her invention of a folding cabinet bed in 1885.

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Gabby Douglas is the 1st black person in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champion, 2012.

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Mary Mahoney was the 1st black woman to complete nurse’s training in 1879.

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Henry Ossian Flipper was the 1st black man to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, 1877.

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William Monroe Trotter founded the newspaper The Guardian and helped W.E.B. Du Bois organize the Niagara Movement of 1905.

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Cheryl Boone Isaacs 1st black president of the Acadmey of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2013.

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