Dr. Joycelyn Elders was the 1st black appointed surgeon general of the United States, 1993.  

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Asa Philip Randolph aka A. Philip Randolph, organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the 1st predominantly black labor union, 1925.

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Rashida Muhammed was a black community activist in Oakland, CA, better known as Dessie X.Woods. She died of lung cancer in 2006, had a street named after her and Alice Walker memorialized her in a collection of essays.

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Maggie Lena Walker, a black woman, was the 1st female bank president of any race to charter a bank in the United States, 1902.

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Crispus Attucks, a black man, was the 1st person killed in the Boston massacre and the 1st American killed in the American Revolutionary War, 1723.

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Renel Brooks-Moon 2nd female and 1st black woman public address announcer in Major League Baseball, SF Giants.

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Lucy Diggs Slowe was the 1st black woman to win a major sports title; American Tennis Association, 1917.

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Renel Brooks-Moon first female announcer of a championship game in any professional sport, 2002 World Series.

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Eugene Jacques Bullard was the 1st black combat pilot, 1917.

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Amelia Boynton Robinson helped organize the 1965 Selma March and was the 1st black woman to run for Congress in Alabama, 1964.

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