Rhode Island Regiment was the 1st black U.S. military regiment, 1778.

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Simone Biles was the 1st black woman to receive 4 Olympic gold medals in women’s gymnastics at a single game.

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Barbara Jordan and Addie L. Wyatt 1st black women named as Time magazine’s Person of the Year, 1975.

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Lee Elder 1st black to play in a men’s major golf championship, 1975.

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Gwendolyn Brooks 1st black to win a Pulitzer Prize, 1949.

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Jack Johnson was the 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion, 1908.

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Carter G. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history.

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Cicely Tyson 1st black to appear as a series regular on a primetime dramatic television series, 1963.

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Dorothy Dandridge 1st individual black woman to grace the cover of Life magazine, 1954.

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Nancy Hicks Maynard, 1st black woman reporter for The New York Times, 1968.

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