Jonathan Jasper Wright
Jonathan Jasper Wright was the 1st black State Supreme Court Justice, South Carolina; 1870.
Read more "Jonathan Jasper Wright"Jonathan Jasper Wright was the 1st black State Supreme Court Justice, South Carolina; 1870.
Read more "Jonathan Jasper Wright"Aaliyah first artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 based solely on airplay in 2000. She died in 2001.
Read more "Aaliyah"Frank E. Petersen was the 1st black U.S. Marine Corps aviator, 1952.
Read more "Frank E. Petersen"Carol Moseley Braun became the 1st black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.
Read more "Carol Moseley Braun"Matt Baker was the 1st known black comic book artist; Jumbo Comics #69 for Fiction House, 1944.
Read more "Matt Baker"Tracy K. Smith 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, 2017-2019.
Read more "Tracy K. Smith"Tamika Mallory co-President of 2019 Women’s March and an activist and co-founder of the 2017 Women’s March.
Read more "Tamika Mallory"Bayard Rustin was an openly gay civil rights activist who helped organize the March on Washington In 1963.
Read more "Bayard Rustin"Eddie Bernice Johnson is the first registered nurse to be elected to Congress, (Texas), 1993.
Read more "Eddie Bernice Johnson"Gregory Hines receives USPS Black Heritage Series stamp January 28, 2019.
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