Lisa Blunt
Lisa Blunt Rochester, born in 1962, became the first woman and Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate.
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1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment
1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment was the first black regiment to be organized in a northern state to see combat during the Civil War.
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54th Massschusetts Colored Regiment was the first Black regiment recruited during the Civil War.
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Christopher Johnson is Black and deaf assistant dean at the University of Cincinnati
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Celestine S. Cook (1924-1985) was the first Black woman to serve on the National Business Committee for the Arts in 1974.
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Jackie Torrance 1944-2004. Storyteller.
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James O. Plinton Jr. 1914-1996 one of the first Black people to serve as an executive for a major U.S. commercial airline.
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Kim Hamilton (born Dorothy Mae Aiken 1932 – 2013) She was also one of the first Black actors to appear on the soap opera Days of Our Lives and was the only Black to appear in a speaking role on Leave It to Beaver.
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Pamela Price born in 1957, District Attorney, Alameda County, California was one of the first Black women to argue a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Mike Evans 1949-2006 actor and creator of The television show “Good Times”
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