Walter Burton was the 1st black County sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas; 1869

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Marsai Martin at 14, Hollywood’s youngest executive producer, 2019.

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Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates was the 1st black resort owner in Ulster County in the Catskill Mountains, Peg Leg Bates Country Club in Kerhonkson, New York,; 1951 to 1987.

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Tish James is the 1st black attorney general in New York; 2018.

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C.R. Patterson & Sons was the 1st black Automobile manufacturing company, Virginia; 1915.  

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Josephine Baker was the 1st black person to become a worldwide entertainer and to star in a major motion picture,  Marc Allégret film Zouzou; 1934.

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William Warrick Cardozo was the 1st black scientist who researched sickle cell anemia; 1835.

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Julia Collins, Zume Pizza, first black woman whose tech company is valued at $1 billion or more by investors, 2019.

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Carter G. Woodson was the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 1915.  

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Wangari Maathai founded Kenya’s Green Belt Movement in 1977. In 2004 she was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

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