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First African-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [351] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 352 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
First African Americans elected as judges in the state of New York: James S. Watson and Charles E. Toney [10] 1938; First African-American woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and to any state legislature: Crystal Bird Fauset. 1939; First African-American woman to own a cosmetology school in Iowa: Pauline Brown Humphrey [11 ...
First African-American baseball player to be named the Major League Baseball World Series MVP: Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals [45] First African-American to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association: Althea Gibson; First African-American baseball player to be named the captain of a Major League Baseball team: Willie Mays, San Francisco ...
First African-American man to receive an Oscar: James Baskett (Honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of "Uncle Remus" in Song of the South, 1946) [22] (See also: Sidney Poitier, 1964) First African-American composer to have an opera performed by a major U.S. company: William Grant Still (Troubled Island, New York City Opera) [23]
Alexander Lucius Twilight was an American educator, politician, and minister. He was the first African American to earn a college degree from an American College at Middlebury College in 1823. He is the first African American elected to serve in a state legislature, the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836.
1879: William Edward White (1860–1937), believed to be the first African American to play in the major leagues, appearing in one game on June 21, 1879. White passed as white. 1884: Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856–1924), first openly African-American player; 1887: Jim Toy (1858–1919), another possible, disputed candidate for first Native ...
Feb. 9—LENOIR In celebration of Black History Month, the city of Lenoir will honor Black American firsts that happened here in Caldwell County and Lenoir via several social media posts ...
The first African American to vote in the United States after the passage of the 15th Amendment Thomas Mundy Peterson (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey , has been claimed to be the first African American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution .