Ebony
Ebony was the 1st mass circulation magazine, 1945.
Read more "Ebony"Ebony was the 1st mass circulation magazine, 1945.
Read more "Ebony"New Orleans Tribune was the 1st black daily newspaper, 1864.
Read more "New Orleans Tribune"Gloria Dean Randall Scott was the 1st black president of girl scouts; USA, 1975.
Read more "Gloria Dean Randall Scott"Alexander Lucius Twilight was the 1st known black to graduate from an American college; Middlebury College in Vermont, 1823.
Read more "Alexander Lucius Twilight"Josh White was the 1st black person to give a White House Command Performance, 1941.
Read more "Josh White"Maya Angelou was the first Black female cable car conductor in San Francisco in 1944, when she was 16 years old.
Read more "Maya Angelou"Halle Berry, first black woman to win an Academy Award for best actress, 2002. As of 2018, the only black actress to do so.
Read more "Halle Berry"The Princess and the FrogĀ is the first Disney movie to feature a black female lead, 2009.
Read more "The Princess and the Frog"Clarence Page first black columnist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1989.
Read more "Clarence Page"Duke Ellington, first black to appear on a coin by himself, 2009, on a quarter in the District of Columbia.
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