Wiley Manuel first black to serve on the California State Supreme Court in 1977.

Mary Fields, aka “Black Mary” or “Stagecoach Mary”, born 1832, died 1914, first black woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States.

Floyd Patterson was the youngest boxer in history to win the title of heavyweight champion, and the first of any race to regain the title after losing it; 1956 to 1972.  

Annie Turnbo Malone one of U.S.’s first black woman millionaires with $14 million in assets in the 1920s from her beauty and cosmetics lines.

Emerson John Moore was the first black to serve as a Catholic bishop in New York, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York; 1982.  

Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar directed the first romantic comedy about black Muslim life in 2018, Muslimah’s Guide to Marriage.

Carl Rowan was the first black to hold a seat on the National Security Council as the highest level black man in the U.S government; 1964.