Autherine Lucy was the first black student admitted to a white public school or university in the state of Alabama in 1956.

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Coleman Young was the first black mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1984.

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Vivian Malone born in 1942 and died in 2005 was in 1963 along with James Hood the first two black students to enroll in the University of Alabama. She was the first black student to graduate in 1965.

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Derek Jeter was the first black CEO of a Major League Baseball team in 2017.

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Brenda Davis in 2017 became the first black of any gender to be elected mayor of Stamps, Arkansas.

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Tiger Woods, won the U.S. Masters at Augusta in 1997 with a record score at age 21, making him the youngest man and the first black person to earn the title.

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Brenda Wade is a psychologist, speaker, trainer, relationship expert, and author.

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Matthew Henson was the first black person to be made a life member of The Explorers Club in 1937 and, in 1948, was elevated to the highest level of membership.

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Marie Gilmore was the city of Alameda, California’s first elected black mayor of any gender in 2010.

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Marvin Gaye was one of the 1st artists in Motown to break away from a production company, paving the way for Stevie Wonder, Tamla Records In the 1970’s.

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