“Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids“ was the 1st cartoon with an all black cast and aired 1972-84.

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James Alan McPherson was the 1st black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1978.

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Ralph Bunche was the 1st black man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, 1950 for mediations in Israel.

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Gwendolyn Brooks was the 1st black woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1950.

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Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee for an Academy Award in the Best Actress category at ten years old, 2013.

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Ethel Waters was the 1st black person to star in her own television show, “The Ethel Waters Show,” 1939.

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Suzan-Lori Parks made history with her play Topdog/Underdog, a production that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—making her the 1st female black writer to do so—in 2002.

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Alain LeRoy Locke graduated from Harvard University and was the 1st black man to win a Rhodes Scholarship, 1907.

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault was the 1st black woman to enroll at the University of Georgia, as well as one of the 1st two African-American students to integrate the school, in 1961.

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Arthur Mitchell created the 1st black classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem, 1969.

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