Myrtle Potter
Myrtle Potter was the first black woman on Amazon’s board of directors, 2004- 2009.
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The Platters
The Platters were the 1st black group to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with Smoke Get in Your Eyes, January 19, 1959.
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Seba Johnson first black woman to ski at the Olympics in 1988, also the youngest at age 14.
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Ernie Davis was the 1st black person to win the Heisman Trophy, 1961.
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Cathy Hughes founded Radio One in 1999 and was the first Black woman to head a publicly traded corporation.
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Solomon Carter Fuller was the 1st black Psychiatrist, Boston University School of Medicine, 1897.
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Tim Scott was the 1st black senator to be elected in the South since Reconstruction, 2014.
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Rebecca Walker writer, feminist, and activist. Founded The Third Wave Fund/Third Wave Foundation.
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Charles E. Samuels Jr. was the 1st black director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2011.
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One Potato, Two Potato was the 1st movie with a black interracial marriage, directed by Larry Peerce, 1964.
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