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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Crystal Bird Fauset was the 1st black female U.S. legislator, 1938.  

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Charlotte Ray was the 1st black woman admitted to a bar, 1872.

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Dr. Charles Drew was the 1st black developer of the blood bank, 1940.  

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Charles Gordone was the 1st black Pulitzer prize winner in drama, 1970.

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Perry Young Jr was the 1st black pilot for a commercial airline, 1957.

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Briton Hammon was the 1st black person to publish an autobiography; A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man, 1760.

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Senator Kamala Harris, CA, 2016, 1st U.S. senator of Jamaican or Indian descent.

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Senator Kamala Harris, first black woman senator from California, 2016.

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Ida Gray Nelson Rollins was the 1st black female dental surgeon, 1890.  

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