Sandra Douglass born 1978. In 2022 became the first Black woman to be president of a National Football League team, the Las Vegas Raiders.

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Peter M. Johnson born 1966. First Black general authority in church history for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Vivian Malone Jones 1942-2005. The University of Alabama’s first Black graduate in 1963.

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Travers J. Bell 1942-1988 founder of first Black firm on New York Stock Exchange in 1971. aka “The Father of Black Investing”

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Spotswood William Robinson III, 1916 – 1998. In 1964 first Black judge for the Federal District Court in D.C. and in 1966 first Black on D.C. Court of Appeals.

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Anne-Marie Johnson born 1962 elected first national vice president of the Screen Actors Guild in 2008.

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Frances Thompson, transgender advocate, 1840 – 1876.

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Madeline Morgan Chicago school teacher who in 1942 introduced Black History into the curriculum.

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Yvette Lee Bowser born 1965 is the first Black woman to develop a prime time series for television.

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