Joyce Wilford shared the cover with model Bonnie Lyshoir, becoming the first black girl on the cover of Seventeen in 1971.

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Julian Manly Earls became NASA’s first Black section head, first Black office chief, first Black division chief, first Black deputy director, NASA’s second Black center director, and he also wrote NASA’s first health physics guides.

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Model, Katiti Kironde, became the first Black woman on the cover of Glamour, the magazine’s best-selling issue of all time in 1968.

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Philip Downing (1857-1934) designed and patented the modern day letter box in 1891, the predecessor to the modern mail box.

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Alice Childress, 1916 – 1994, novelist, playwright, and actress. The only black woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades. She formed an off-Broadway Union for actors.

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Alexander Miles (1838 – 1918) was the first person awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors in 1887.

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Janet Emerson Bashen became the first black woman to obtain a software patent after creating, LinkLIne, to assist with web-based Equal Employment Opportunity investigations in 2007.

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Richard Spikes (1878 – 1963) was the first person to hold a patent for an automatic gear shift for cars in 1932.

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Model, Darine Stern (1947 – 1994) , became the first black woman on the cover of Playboy in 1971.

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Singer and entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. (1925 – 1990) became the first black man to land the cover of GQ in 1967.

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