Black Heritage Stamps: Lena Horne, 2018

Lena Horne, 1st black actress to sign a long-term contract with a film studio since 1915.

Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph 1st athlete to win three gold medals in the Olympics.

Theodore Wright was the 1st black graduate of an Ivy League school in 1828

Rihanna, 1st black woman on cover of British Vogue’s September issue in 102 years of existence.

Anita Florence Hemmings in 1897 first black woman to graduate from Vassar.

Serena Williams, first black person to win a Grand Slam in tennis.

Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816, forty-nine years before the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.

Mordecai Johnson 1st black president of Howard University.

Carl Stokes 1st black anchorman in NYC, 1972.

Essynce Moore is the 1st black teen to write books that are mandatory readings for school districts.