Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 was posthumously named a general on Veteran’s Day, 11/11/2024
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Ella Jenkins 1924 – 2024. “The First Lady of the Children’s folk song”
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Lisa Blunt Rochester, born in 1962, became the first woman and Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate.
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1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment was the first black regiment to be organized in a northern state to see combat during the Civil War.
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54th Massschusetts Colored Regiment was the first Black regiment recruited during the Civil War.
Read more "54th Massschusetts Colored Regiment"Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is Black and deaf assistant dean at the University of Cincinnati
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Celestine S. Cook (1924-1985) was the first Black woman to serve on the National Business Committee for the Arts in 1974.
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Jackie Torrance 1944-2004. Storyteller.
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James O. Plinton Jr. 1914-1996 one of the first Black people to serve as an executive for a major U.S. commercial airline.
Read more "James O. Plinton Jr."Kim Hamilton
Kim Hamilton (born Dorothy Mae Aiken 1932 – 2013) She was also one of the first Black actors to appear on the soap opera Days of Our Lives and was the only Black to appear in a speaking role on Leave It to Beaver.
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