Dr. Peter Murray Marshall was the President of the New York County Medical Society, becoming the first black to lead a unit of the American Medical Association in 1954.

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Dr. Meta L. Christy, a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, was the world’s first black osteopathic physician in 1921.

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Robert Tanner Freeman was the first black to receive an education in dentistry and a dental degree from an American medical school, Harvard University School of Dental Medicine; 1867.

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Dr. David Jones Peck was the first black medical student to graduate from a medical school in the United States, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL; 1947.

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John Albert Burr invented one of the first rotary blade lawn mowers; 1899.

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Treshelle M. Edmond is the first and only deaf woman of color to headline a Broadway production twice.

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Frederick McKinley Jones invented the refrigerator and a portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food in 1940.

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Emmett Louis Till was born 7/25/41 in Chicago, IL. He was visiting in Mississippi when he was 14 years old and was lynched, kidnapped, beaten, mutalated, shot in the head, and his body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River. Two men were acquitted of his kidnapping and murder and later they admitted to the crime.

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