Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad 1st black to win a Tony for Best Lead Actress in a play, 2004.
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Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler
Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler 1st black woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree, 1864.
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Ms. Channing Dungey 1st black president of a major broadcast TV network, ABC, in 2016.
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Dr. Carla Hayden 1st black Librarian of Congress, 2016.
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Eugene Von Grona established the first “American Negro Ballet” in 1937 in Harlem.
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Marian Brown Dallas County’s first black sheriff, 2018.
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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones 1st black to sing at Carnegie Hall, 1892.
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Vernice Amour 1st black female combat pilot in U.S. Armed Forces.
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Vernice Amour 1st black female naval aviator in Marine Corps.
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Ibtihaj Muhammad first Muslim-American to medal at the Olympics.
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