Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams 1st black woman to be a major party nominee for governor in the United States, Georgia, 2018.
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Andrew Gillum
Andrew Gillum 1st black Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Florida history, 2018.
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Barbara Jordan was the 1st black elected to the Texas Senate and United States House of Representatives.
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James Weldon Johnson was the leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.
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James Weldon Johnson was the 1st black professor to be hired at New York University, 1934
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Alice Dunnigan 1st black female correspondent to receive White House credentials.
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Mary McLeod Bethune was a national adviser to president Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his “Black Cabinet”.
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P.B.S. Pinchback was the 1st black man to serve as a state governor of Louisiana, 1872
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Grace Jones 5/19/48 Jamaica. Singer, songwriter, lyricist, model, record producer, and actress.
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Jaki Shelton Green is the 1st black woman to be named North Carolina’s Poet Laureate, 2018
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