Jack Johnson was the 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion, 1908.

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Carter G. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history.

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Cicely Tyson 1st black to appear as a series regular on a primetime dramatic television series, 1963.

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Dorothy Dandridge 1st individual black woman to grace the cover of Life magazine, 1954.

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Nancy Hicks Maynard, 1st black woman reporter for The New York Times, 1968.

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Frank E. Petersen 1st black General in U.S. Marines.

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Frank E. Petersen 1st black black aviator in the U.S. Marines, 1952.

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Hattie McDaniel was the 1st black person to win an Academy Award, best supporting actress, “Gone with the Wind” 1940.

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Nichelle Nichols took part in the first interracial kiss on TV with co-star William Shatner in “Star Trek” 1968.

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Earl Lloyd was the 1st black man to play in the NBA, for the Washington Capitols, 1950

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