Billy Ray White Menlo Park’s first black mayor, 1981.

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Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen Jr. first black to command a squadron in the Naval Service.

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Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen first black Marine Corps aviator.

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 Toni Morrison, 1st Black person to win Nobel Prize for Literature

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Lisa Leslie first player to dunk in an WNBA game on 7/12/2002. 

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Highland Beach Town is the first Black-owned beach town founded in 1893.

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Wendell Scott 1st black to be inducted into NASCAR Hall of Fame, 2015.

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Tyler Perry; the 1st Black person to own his own T.V and film studio.

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Beverly Johnson first black woman on cover of Vogue in 1974. 

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Sheila Johnson first black woman billionaire.

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