Wilberforce University in Ohio, was the 1st college owned and operated by black people, 1863.

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Barbara Jordan 1st black woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from a southern state, TX, 1972.

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Joycelyn Elders, first black Surgeon General of the U.S. of any gender, 1993.

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Audrey F. Manley first black woman to achieve the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral) in 1988.

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Harry S. McAlpin was the 1st black male reporter to attend a U.S. Presidential news conference, 1944.

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Hal Jackson was the 1st black network radio host, WINX-Washington, D.C. 1998.

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Audrey S. Penn first black woman to serve as an (acting) director of the  National Institute of Health (NIH), 1994.

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Audrey F. Manley, 1st alumnae to be elected president of Spellman College, 1997.

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Shavone Charles, a black woman, the Head of Global Music and Youth Culture Communications at Instagram and founded the Magic in Her Melanin Project; 2018.

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Regina Benjamin in 1995, she was elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association, making her both the first physician under age 40 and the first black woman to be elected.

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